Kenneth Alan "Kenny" Waltzer (born December 23, 1943) is an American historian and educator, formerly director of the Jewish Studies program at Michigan State University (MSU).
After a hiatus during the Second Intifada due to security concerns, Waltzer helped persuade MSU to reinstate the study abroad program in Israel in 2006.
[1] Waltzer's Buchenwald-related research at the International Tracing Service determined that Fyodor Michajlitschenko was the young man who rescued Israel Meir Lau from Buchenwald.
[4] Waltzer and his colleagues also determined that Rosenblat's wife and her family were hidden as local townspeople posing as Polish Catholics at a farm near Breslau, some 211 miles away from Schlieben.
[5] Antonin Kalina was granted Righteous Among the Nations status by Yad Vashem posthumously in 2012 and the announcement was made as Kinderblock 66 played at the Jerusalem Film Festival.