1. David H Kranzler was an American professor of library science at Queensborough Community College, New York, who specialized in the study of the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust.
12 Facts About David Kranzler
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David Kranzler's family emigrated to the United States in 1937 to avoid Nazi persecution, and he was raised in Brooklyn, New York.
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David Kranzler studied at the Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and in 1953 he obtained his BA from Brooklyn College, followed by an MA in 1958, from Brooklyn, and an MLS degree in 1957 from Columbia University.
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David Kranzler was one of the founders and the first director of QCC's Holocaust Resource Center and Archives.
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David Kranzler served as scholar-in-residence in numerous congregations, college campuses, and centers, including the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue in Manhattan; Kodima Synagogue in Springfield, Massachusetts ; and the Ohio State University Holocaust Center.
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From October 2002 to January 2003, David Kranzler was a Baron Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim Research Fellow for the Study of Racism, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust at Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research; the title of his research project was "A Comparative Study on the Worldwide Rescue Effort by Orthodox Jewry During the Holocaust Within the Context of Rescue in General".
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David Kranzler became the leading historian on the subject of Jews aiding and rescuing the Jews during the Holocaust, and was among the first to document the efforts of Orthodox Jewish organizations, such as the Vaad Ha-hatzala and Agudath Israel.
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David Kranzler wrote a paper, "Orthodox Ends, UnOrthodox Means", for American Jewry during the Holocaust, a report organized by the American Jewish Commission, led by Arthur J Goldberg.
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David Kranzler lectured on the subject in America, Israel, Europe and the Far East.
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David Kranzler interviewed and recorded over a thousand people, including some of the major Jewish rescuers, such as Hillel Kook, George Mantello, Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld, Julius Kuhl, and close family and associates of rescuers no longer alive, including Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl and Recha Sternbuch.
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David Kranzler established a research archive of about a million pages and interviews which were at his Brooklyn home.
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David Kranzler was convinced that Mantello's campaign to publicize the report led to the stopping of the mass transports of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz in July 1944, and enabled the Raoul Wallenberg mission and other important initiatives in Hungary and elsewhere.