Dr. David Kranzler, a noted Holocaust historian and retired professor at the City University of New York is the author of nine books and numerous articles on rescue and rescue attempts during the Holocaust (see below). His most recent, book is entitled, The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador and Switzerland's Finest Hour (Syracuse U. Press), was awarded the prestigious Israeli EGIT Prize for the best manuscript on the Holocaust. The foreword is by Senator Joseph I. Lieberman. His next work is entitled, Holocaust Hero: the Untold Story of Solomon Schonfeld, the British Rabbi Who Saved Thousands of Jews During the Holocaust.

Dr. Kranzler has served as Scholar-in-Residence in numerous congregations, college campuses, and centers, including the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue (Rabbi Marc Angel) in Manhattan, and Kodima Synagogue, Springfield, Mass. (Rabbi Alex Weisfogel), Ohio State University Holocaust Center (Prof. Saul Friedman).

Topics:

Rescue
Jewish Labor Committee
Orthodox Holocaust response
Stephen S. Wise
American Jewish Leadership
Holocaust heros
Swiss people
Japanese Saving Refugees
Jewish experience in Shanghai

Books and Publications

• Japanese, Nazis and Jews: the Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai 1938-45 (Yeshiva U. Press, 1976, reprinted three times, and translated into Chinese, 1993)
• Heroine of Rescue
• Thy Brother's Blood: the Orthodox Jewish Response During the Holocaust.
• The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador and Switzerland's Finest Hour
• Holocaust Hero: the Untold Story of Solomon Schonfeld, the British Rabbi Who Saved Thousands of Jews During the Holocaust. (His next book)
• Contributions to:
  • Goldberg Commission Report on American Jewry During the Holocaust
  • Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
  • The World Reaction to the Holocaust
  • Yale Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (forthcoming)
  • New Dictionary of National Biography.

Contact:

Telephone: (718) 375-6010
          Fax:(718) 336-7959
   Address: Dr. David Kranzler
                  729 Avenue N
                  Brooklyn, NY 11230

      E-mail: at kranzlerd@aol.com.