| Saul Friedländer AKA Pavel Friedländer Born: 11-Oct-1932
Birthplace: Prague, Czech Republic
Gender: Male
Religion: Agnostic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian, Author Nationality: Israel
Executive summary: Holocaust historian Military service: Israeli Defense Forces (1951-53) Historian Saul Friedl�nder is an expert on Nazism and the Third Reich. In his best known works, he helped expose Pope Pius XII's cooperation with Hitler, examined the life of conscience-stricken SS member Kurt Gerstein, and headed an inquiry into Bertelsmann's interactions with the Nazi government. Friedl�nder's perspective is informed from personal experience: His parents were among the murdered at Auschwitz, but before their capture they hid their young son in a Catholic school, under the false name Paul-Henri Ferland. Wife: Meiry Hagith (m. 1959, three children)
University: BS, Tel Aviv University (1959)
University: MS Political Science, Institut d�Etudes Politique, Paris, France (1961)
University: PhD Political Science, University of Geneva (1963)
Teacher: Political Science, University of Geneva (1963-67)
Professor: Political Science, University of Geneva (1967-87)
Professor: International Relations, Hebrew University (1969-75)
Professor: History, Tel Aviv University (1976-87)
Professor: History, UCLA (1987-)
Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction 2008 for The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 2007
MacArthur Fellowship 1999
Israel Prize 1983
World Zionist Organization
Czech Ancestry
German Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
Pius XII and the Third Reich: A Documentation (1966, biography)
Prelude to Downfall: Hitler and the United States, 1939-1941 (1967, history)
Kurt Gerstein: The Ambiguity of Good (1969, biography)
Arabs & Israelis: A Dialogue (1975, international affairs)
History and Psychoanalysis: An Inquiry into the Possibilities and Limits of Psychohistory (1978, history)
When Memory Comes (1979, memoir)
Reflections on Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death (1984, history)
Memory, History, and the Extermination of the Jews of Europe (1993, history)
Nazi Germany and the Jews (1997-2007, history)
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