11 Facts About Omer Bartov

Omer Bartov is the Dean's Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, where he has taught since 2000.

Omer Bartov was born in 1954 in Ein HaHoresh, Israel.

Omer Bartov's father, Hanoch Bartov, was an author and journalist whose parents immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from Poland before Hanoch was born.

Omer Bartov's mother immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from Buczacz, Poland, in the mid-1930s.

Omer Bartov fought in the 1973 Yom Kippur War as a company commander.

Omer Bartov was educated at Tel Aviv University and obtained a PhD from St Antony's College, Oxford, with a doctoral thesis on the Nazi indoctrination of the German army and its crimes on the Eastern front during World War II.

Omer Bartov was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1989 to 1992.

From 1992 to 2000, Omer Bartov taught at Rutgers University, where he held the Raoul Wallenberg Professorship in Human Rights.

Omer Bartov was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.

Omer Bartov has challenged the popular view that the German Army was an apolitical force that had little involvement in war crimes or crimes against humanity, arguing that the Heer was a deeply Nazi institution that played a key role in the Holocaust in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union.

In January 2024, Omer Bartov said that Israel had repeatedly expressed genocidal intent against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war.