Shimon Redlich

Shimon Redlich (Hebrew: שמעון רדליך; born 1935)[1] is an Israeli historian and Holocaust survivor, professor emeritus at the Ben Gurion University, a specialist in the modern history of Jews in Eastern Europe, Russia and the USSR.

[2] Shimon Redlich was born in Lviv in 1935.

He and his family moved to Brzezany, located in what is now Ukraine, the same year.

[3] Redlich is one of the child survivors starring in the 1948 film Unzere kinder.

In 1972 he began teaching at Ben Gurion University and retired as full professor in 2003.