Shimon Redlich



Shimon Redlich (born 1935) is an Israeli historian and Holocaust survivor, professor emeritus at the Ben Gurion University, a specialist in the modern history of Jews in Eastern Europe, Russia and the USSR.

Biography
Shimon Redlich was born in Lviv 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.

In 1950 he emigrated to Israel. He earned BA at Hebrew University, MA from Harvard University and PhD from New York University. In 1972 he began teaching at Ben Gurion University and retired as full professor in 2003.