Professor David Bankier was the Incumbent of the John Najmann Chair of Holocaust Studies and Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research.
David Bankier
Holocaust researcher dies at 63
(Associated Press)
JERUSALEM
David Bankier, a prominent Holocaust scholar and head of Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research, has died after a lengthy illness. He was 63.
Bankier earned his Ph.D. in Jewish History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctoral thesis focused on German society and Nazi anti-Semitism. He later taught at universities in Britain, the United States, South Africa and South America.
Bankier published numerous scholarly studies, including a book titled: "The Germans and the Final Solution: Public Opinion Under Nazism."
Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev called Bankier "a gifted lecturer, and a human being of outstanding integrity, brilliance and humility."
Bankier, who was divorced, is survived by three children.
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