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Memorial Page for Yitzhak Arad

Nov 11, 1926 – May 6, 2021(94 years)Born in:Švenčionys, Švenčionys District Municipality

Israeli historian, retired IDF brigadier general and a former Soviet partisan who has served as director of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993

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Biography

Birthplace

Švenčionys, Švenčionys District Municipality

Nationality

Second Polish Republic

Burial Place

Einat

Occupation(6)

historian military personnelpartisanpedagoguewriter university teacher

Awards(1)

honorary doctor of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

Education(1)

Tel Aviv University

Yitzhak Arad (* November 11, 1926 in Švenčionys; † May 6, 2021) was an israeli historian, retired IDF brigadier general and a former Soviet partisan who has served as director of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993. He was 94 years old. He studied at Tel Aviv University. He was awarded the honorary doctor of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. He was buried at Einat.

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Born in Švenčionys, Švenčionys District Municipality

1926

honorary doctor of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

1993

Died

2021

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Yitzhak Arad. Forever remembered.