A Source: An Interview

Yehudad Bauer is a historian of the Holocaust and teaches Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is actively involved with the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, and he has given many speeches and lectures to members of this organization to promote effective education and remembrance of the Holocaust. In this interview, Bauer expresses the opinions that continued research into not the deaths, but rather the lives, of the persecuted Jews will yield greater understanding. He claims that the Holocaust was both an ideological and functionalist phenomenon, and he warns that radical Islamists may be on the same path Hitler traveled years ago. Finally he commends Germany and other nations for their dedication to Holocaust education, while cautioning that formal apologies are not a form of restitution. This source offers an intellectual insight into the world of the oppressed and confirms from an outside perspective Germany’s effective commitment to Holocaust education.

Bauer, Yehuda. Interview. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. 1 Dec. 2002. 5 Jan. 2008. http://www.jcpa.org.

You can find the transcribed interview with Yehuda Bauer here.