Mark Dvorzhetski ( he, מרק דבורז'צקי; 3 May 1908 – 15 March 1975) was an Israeli physician, historian and
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 ...
survivor.
Biography
Mark Dvortzhetski was born in
Lithuania
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(at the time part of the
Russian Empire
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). He
immigrated
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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 ...
after
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
. He authored a number of books on the Holocaust, in particular with reference to the
Baltic States
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and the medical profession.
Awards and recognition
* In 1953, Dvorzhetski was awarded the
Israel Prize
The Israel Prize ( he, פרס ישראל; ''pras israél'') is an award bestowed by the State of Israel, and regarded as the state's highest cultural honor.
History
The Israel Prize is awarded annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state cer ...
, for social sciences, the inaugural year of the prize.
Published works
*''Between the Pieces'' - an autobiography
*''Yerusholaym de-Lita in kamf un umkum. Zikhroynes fun Vilner Geto
utte et chute de la Jérusalem-de-Lithuanie. Histoire du Ghetto de Vilna', Paris, L’Union Populaire Juive en France 1948 (''Jerusalem of Lithuania in Revolt and in the Holocaust'' – History of the Vilna Ghetto and the Resistance Movement)
*''Europe without Children'': Nazi Plans for Biological Destruction
*''The Jewish Camps in Estonia''
*''Hirshke Glik'', Paris 1966
Music from the Holocaust
See also
*List of Israel Prize recipients
This is a complete list of recipients of the Israel Prize from the inception of the Prize in 1953 through to 2022.
List
For each year, the recipients are, in most instances, listed in the order in which they appear on the official Israel Prize ...
References
Bar-Ilan University faculty
Holocaust survivors
Israeli Ashkenazi Jews
20th-century Israeli physicians
Israel Prize in social sciences recipients
Israel Prize in social sciences recipients who were historians
Lithuanian Jews
Soviet emigrants to Israel
Israeli people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
1908 births
1975 deaths
20th-century Israeli historians
Burials at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery
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