Jehuda Bauer, prominent Israeli historian of Czech origin, dies at 98

Jehuda Bauer, a prominent Israeli historian of Czech origin who specialized in the history of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, died in Jerusalem on Friday at the age of 98, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) announced on Sunday.  Bauer published more than forty books on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism and founded numerous international Holocaust education initiatives over a career that spanned more than six decades.

Jehuda Bauer was born in 1926 in Prague to a Czech-German family of Jewish descent. In 1939, on the day of the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany, his family managed to flee to British Palestine. In 2015 he received the Gratias Agit award from the Czech Foreign Ministry for spreading the good name of the Czech Republic abroad.