Yad Vashem Studies

The volume is dedicated to the memory of Prof. David Bankier, member of the editorial board and a leading scholar of Holocaust history, and to the memory of Avraham Sutzkever, an important Yiddish poet. The volume includes the following articles: Dan Michman on Bankier; Avraham Novershtern on Sutzkever; Lea Prais on the missing parts from Rabbi Shimon Huberband’s diary of the Warsaw ghetto; Ayala Nedivi on the attempt to rescue tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews a few days before the Nazi invasion; Wulff Bickenbach on Switzerland’s official policy on clearing the name of border police captain Paul Grüninger, who was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; Kierra Crago-Schneider on antisemitism among Germans in the American-occupied zone after the war; and Doron Bar on the rivalry between Yad Vashem and the Chamber of the Holocaust on Mount Zion in the 1950s.