Bartov
Bartov is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * David Bartov (1924–2018), Israeli judge *Hanoch Bartov (1926–2016), Israeli author and journalist *Omer Bartov (born 1954), Israeli academic, son of Hanoch See also *Bartow (name) Bartow is a surname, and it has also been used as a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Edward Bartow (1870–1958), American chemist * Francis S. Bartow (1816–1861), American politician and Confederate officer in the A ...

Omer Bartov
Omer Bartov (Hebrew: עֹמֶר בַּרְטוֹב; pronounced ">�oˈmer ˈbartov/nowiki>; born 1954) is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and Professor of German Studies at Brown University. The son of Israel Prize-winning author Hanoch Bartov, Bartov was born in Israel and attended Tel Aviv University and St. Antony's College, Oxford. As a historian, Bartov is most noted for his studies of the German Army in World War II. Bartov has challenged the popular view that the German Army was an apolitical force that had little involvement in war crimes or crimes against humanity in World War II. Bartov has argued that the Wehrmacht was a deeply Nazi institution that played a key role in the Holocaust in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union. Bartov, a 1989 to 1992 Junior Harvard fellow and 2002 Guggenheim fellow, is one of the world's leading authorities on the subject of genocide. ''The Forward'' calls Bartov "one of t ...
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Hanoch Bartov
Hanoch Bartov ( he, חנוך ברטוב, 13 August 1926 – 13 December 2016) was an Israeli author and journalist. Biography Hanoch Helfgott (Bartov) was born in Petah Tikva in 1926, a year after his parents immigrated from Poland.http://www.olinfilms.com/brigade/resources/bios/bartov.html The hidden story of the Jewish Brigade in World War II He attended a religious school and then the Ahad Haam gymnasium. After working in diamond polishing and welding for two years, he enlisted in 1943, at the age of 17, in the Palestine Regiment of the British Army. He spent three years in the Jewish Brigade, first in Palestine and then in Italy and the Netherlands, where he served as a medic, caring for Holocaust survivors in DP camps. After World War II, Bartov studied Jewish and general history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During the War of Independence he served in field army units and the Israel Defense Forces in Jerusalem. He lived for four years on Kibbutz Ein Hahoresh ...
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David Bartov
David Bartov (1 February 1924 – 29 March 2018) was an Israeli judge and the head of Nativ from 1986 to 1992. Bartov was born as David Gutensky in the town of Motal, Belarus. He studied in Tarbut school in Pinsk, graduating in 1939. In 1941, during World War II, he was deported to a labor camp in Siberia. In 1946, he left for Poland and was active in a Zionist youth movement in Poland and Germany. In 1949 he immigrated to the newly established state of Israel, where he Hebraized his surname to Bartov. He settled in Jerusalem, and was appointed chief secretary in the bureau of Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel. In 1952, he was appointed head of bureau for the second president, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. In 1959 he graduated law school at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in 1960 acquired his Master of Laws. After qualifying as lawyer in 1961, he was appointed by President Ben-Zvi as his legal advisor. In 1964 he was sent to the Soviet Union, serving as First Secretary at ...
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