Daniel Blatman is an Israeli historian, specializing in history of

the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

. Blatman is the head of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

. Blatman was a visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, 2012–13.

Books

*''The Death Marches. The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide'', Cambridge Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2011

Prizes

*1991: The Pridan Prize for Studies in East European Jewish History, Hebrew University *1993: Jakob Buchman Prize for the Memory of the Holocaust *2011:

Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research The Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research is an annual award by Yad Vashem in recognition of high scholarly research and writing on the Holocaust or its antecedents and aftermath published two years preceding the year of the aw ...

References

External links

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Haaretz ''Haaretz'' ( , originally ''Ḥadshot Haaretz'' – , ) is an Israeli newspaper. It was founded in 1918, making it the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel, and is now published in both Hebrew and English in the Berliner f ...

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