Shimon Redlich (

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: שמעון רדליך; born 1935) is an Israeli historian and

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at the

Ben Gurion University Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) (, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Named after Israeli national founder David Ben-Gurion, the university was founded in 1969 and currently has f ...

, a specialist in the modern history of Jews in Eastern Europe, Russia and the USSR.

Biography

Shimon Redlich was born in

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in 1935. He and his family moved to Brzezany, located in what is now Ukraine, the same year. In 1943 his father was killed during a round-up, and the family went into hiding with the help of a Polish and a Ukrainian families. Redlich is one of the child survivors starring in the 1948 film '' Unzere kinder''.Summer Symposium on the Holocaust Screens 1948 Film Unzere Kinder Followed by Discussion with Child Survivor and Cast Member Shimon Redlich live from Israel
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. He earned BA at

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, MA from

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and PhD from

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. In 1972 he began teaching at

and retired as full professor in 2003.

Works

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Redlich, Shimon 1935 births People from Berezhany Holocaust survivors Israeli historians Historians of the Holocaust Living people Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Harvard University alumni New York University alumni Academic staff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev