Henry Friedlander, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henry Friedlander

American historian

Date of Birth: 24-Sep-1930

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 17-Oct-2012

Profession: writer, historian, university teacher, historian of the modern age

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Henry Egon Friedlander (24 September 1930 – 17 October 2012) was a German-American Jewish historian of the Holocaust noted for his arguments in favor of broadening the scope of casualties of the Holocaust. Born in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish family, Friedlander moved to the United States in 1947 as a survivor of Auschwitz, obtaining his BA in history at Temple University in 1953 and his MA and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1954 and 1968.From 1975 until his retirement in 2001, Friedlander served as a professor in the department of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.