Herbert Rosenkranz (7 July 1924 in

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– 5 September 2003) was a

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Life

Herbert Rosenkranz grew up in the

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district of Brigittenau. His Jewish parents, Michael and Mircia, (maiden name Kesten), and his grandparents had immigrated from

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. The family emigrated to

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after the

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of Austria into

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. After the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940, from 1941 to 1947 Herbert Rosenkranz was interned in several Soviet prison camps. From 1947 to 1953 he studied history and English at the

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. When he had finished his thesis on Chazaro-Judaism Herbert Rosenkranz emigrated to

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. There he taught at grammar schools until 1955, when he started to work as an archivist at the

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memorial in

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. Later he became head of the department for investigation of NS-Crimes at the archive. In 1960/61 Herbert Rosenkranz was an assistant professor for Jewish History at the

University of Tel Aviv Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

, from 1968 to 1977 he lectured 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 ...

. Herbert Rosenkranz supported the Holocaust Memorial Service of young

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from the very beginning.Ein Österreichischer Historiker, der gegen den Strom schwimmt: Dr. Andreas Maislinger (Israel News, 10. April 1992)
He also had contact to the German Action Reconciliation/Service For Peace (ARSP) and sought to establish the dialogue with German clergymen. In the 1980s Herbert Rosenkranz worked as a guest lecturer at the Academy for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg and also at several Austrian universities. His Brother,

Kurt Rosenkranz Kurt Rosenkranz (2 August 1927 – 13 March 2024) was an Austrian adult educator. Biography Kurt Rosenkranz was born in Vienna. He grew up in the Viennese district of Brigittenau. His Jewish parents and grandparents had emigrated from Eastern E ...

founded the Jewish Institute for Adult Education in

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in 1993, and his daughter, Orna Langer, is a music critic at Haaretz.

Bibliography

* ''Verfolgung und Selbstbehauptung. Die Juden in Österreich 1938–1945''. Herold Verlag, Wien 1978. * ''Reichskristallnacht. 9. November 1938 in Österreich''. Europa, Wien 1968. * "The Anschluß and the Tragedy of Austrian Jewry 1938–1945". In: ''The Jews of Austria''. Hg. Josef Fraenkel. Vallentine Mitchell, London 1967.

References

External links

Literatur of and about Herbert Rosenkranz
in the Catalog of the

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Erika Weinzierl Erika Weinzierl (6 June 1925 – 28 October 2014) was an Austrian historian, gender researcher, and historian of Nazism. A member of the Austrian People's Party and the Curatorium of the Austrian Mauthausen Committee, she was the second director ...

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