Peter Kenez (Hungarian: Kenéz Péter; born 1937) is a Jewish Hungarian-American historian specializing in Russian and Eastern European history and politics.
Kenez was born and grew up in Pesterzsébet, Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary.
His father was arrested in March 1944 after Operation Margarethe and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and killed.
[1] His mother fled to Budapest with him, where they survived the persecution of the Jews by the Eichmann-Kommando and the Arrow Cross Party.
[2] He has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz,[3] since 1966, where he is currently Professor Emeritus.