Gideon Greif

Gideon Greif (Hebrew: גדעון גרייף‎; born 16 March 1951) is an Israeli historian who specializes in the history of the Holocaust, especially the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp and particularly the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz.[1] He served as a visiting lecturer for Jewish and Israeli History at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin during the academic year 2011-2012.[2] He was awarded the golden Medal for Merits of the Republic of Serbia.[3]

Gideon Greif
גדעון גרייף
Greif in 2002
Born (1951-03-16) 16 March 1951
OccupationJewish Historian
Academic background
EducationTel Aviv University
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Academic work
Notable worksWe Wept Without Tears

Education

From 1965 until 1969 Gideon Greif attended Municipal High School (Gymnasium) in Tel Aviv. Later, from 1974 to 1976 he attended Tel Aviv University where he received his bachelor's degree in Jewish history, studying the history of the land of Israel. Between 1976 and 1982 he did his master's degree in Jewish History at Tel Aviv University. From 1996 until 2001 he studied at the University of Vienna from which he was awarded his PhD.[4]

Exhibitions

Greif was the scientific advisor and historical consultant for the exhibition "With Me Here Are Six Million Accusers" which marked the 50th anniversary of Adolf Eichmann's trial in 1961, inaugurated April 11, 2011, at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.[5] The exhibition describes Eichmann's career at the SS, his personal responsibility for the deportation of millions of Jews to the ghettos and extermination camps, his attempts to hide after the war and the operation of his discovery and seizure in Argentina in 1960. The exhibition aims to prove that Eichmann was not the "murderer behind the desk", but a fanatic foe of the Jews, determined to send them to their deaths.[5]

Special projects

Greif initiated in 2006 the project of the "Authentic Box Car", which is now standing on the ramp of Birkenau, not far from the main entrance to the camp, as an eternal memory to the hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews, murdered by the Germans in the gas chambers of Birkenau in 1944, and dedicated to the memory of Hugo Lowy.

Greif's book We Wept Without Tears inspired Hungarian director László Nemes to create the film Son of Saul dedicated to the Sonderkommando.[6] The film won the 2016 Academy Awards for the best foreign language film, and also won the 2016 Golden Globe for the Best Motion Picture- Foreign Language.[7]

I was repulsed that the "Controversy" section asserted the notion that the Serbian, Jewish, Roma Holocaust of WWII was not a genocide. It is extremely important that Wikipedia aims to be truthful. Any form of deception or misinformation for any reason should be removed promptly which is why I took it upon myself to remove the hate speech left by another user. Many organizations including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem and the United Nations are all in consensus that a genocide was committed by the Croatian Ustasha against the Serbian, Jewish and Romani people during WWII. The events that happened between 1941-1945 committed by the Croatian Ustasha, who worked in tandem with Nazi Germany, are unequivocally classified as a genocide. Wikipedia should not be used as an opinion forum to discredit well-respected experts. To assert the events perpetrated by the Croatian Ustasha between 1941-1945 against the Serbian, Jewish, Romani was not a genocide is a revisionist attempt at rewriting history and must not be tolerated by websites like Wikipedia.

References
  1. Royle, Trevor (October 27, 2002). "They helped the Nazis murder their fellow Jews now these Holocaust victims' grim secret has been unveiled on film". Sunday Herald. p. 2. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  2. "Schusterman Center welcomes Visiting Professor Gideon M. Greif". The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies. University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
  3. Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Dodeljena odlikovanja povodom Dana državnosti Srbije". www.rts.rs. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  4. Aderet, Ofer (2012-08-17). "A German-Israeli Team Undertakes the Reconstruction of Auschwitz". Haaretz. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
  5. Exhibit showcases Eichmann, 50 years after trial. Associated Press via Kyiv Post (11 April 2011). Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  6. Gross, Terry. "'Son Of Saul' Brings Viewers To The Heart Of The Nazi Death Machine At Auschwitz". npr. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  7. "Winners & Nominees". goldenglobes. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
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