Isaiah Trunk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Isaiah Trunk

Jewish historian

Date of Birth: 21-Jul-1905

Place of Birth: Kutno, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 28-Mar-1981

Profession: archivist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Isaiah Trunk (Polish: Izajasz Trunk; 1905–1981) was a chief archivist of the Yiddish Scientific Institute YIVO in New York from Warsaw, and the leading historian on the Holocaust.
Trunk was an expert on Jewish history during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
A scholar and author originally from Poland, he was the winner of a National Book Award in history for his monograph titled Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe Under Nazi Occupation published in New York by Macmillan in 1972.