Herbert Rosenkranz
Jewish historian
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- PhD History University of Vienna
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Herbert Rosenkranz was a Jewish historian. Life Herbert Rosenkranz grew up in the Viennese district of Brigittenau. His Jewish parents, Michael and Mircia, , and his grandparents had immigrated from Eastern Europe. The family emigrated to Riga, Latvia after the Anschluss of Austria into Nazi Germany. After the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940, from 1941 to 1947 Herbert Rosenkranz was interned in several Soviet prison camps. From 1947 to 1953 he studied history and English at the University of Vienna. When he had finished his thesis on Chazaro-Judaism Herbert Rosenkranz emigrated to Israel. There he taught at grammar schools until 1955, when he started to work as an archivist at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem. Later he became head of the department for investigation of NS-Crimes at the archive. In 1960/61 Herbert Rosenkranz was an assistant professor for Jewish History at the University of Tel Aviv, from 1968 to 1977 he lectured at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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