Henry Friedlander

This article is about a German-American historian of the Holocaust. For an Israeli designer, see Henri Friedlaender.
Henry Friedlander
Born
Heinz Egon Friedländer

(1930-09-24)24 September 1930
Berlin, Germany
Died17 October 2012(2012-10-17) (aged 82)
Bangor, Maine, U.S.
NationalityGerman American
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Temple University
Scientific career
FieldsHistorian
InstitutionsCity University of New York

Henry Egon Friedlander[1] (24 September 1930 – 17 October 2012) was a German-American Jewish historian of the Holocaust who was noted for his arguments in favor of broadening the scope of casualties of the Holocaust.

Born in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish family, Friedlander moved to the United States in 1947 as a survivor of Auschwitz,[2] obtaining his BA in history at Temple University in 1953 and his MA and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1954 and 1968.[3]

From 1975 until his retirement in 2001, Friedlander served as a professor in the department of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

  1. ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).
  2. ^ "Death Notice: Henry Friedlander". The Washington Post. 21 October 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
  3. ^ Daum, Andreas W., ed. (2016). The Second Generation. Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. New York: Berghahn. ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9.