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Yehoshua Büchler

Yehoshua Büchler

Slovak-Israeli historian (1929–2009)


Robert Yehoshua Büchler (Hebrew: יהושע_ביכלר 1929–2009) was a Slovak-Israeli historian. In 1944, he was deported from Slovakia and survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.[1][2] He was the director of the Moreshet Archive [he] in Israel.[3] Büchler was awarded the Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia.[4]

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Büchler pictured in front row wearing shorts at a Shavuot service in recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp, 18 May 1945

Works

  • Büchler, Yehoshua Robert (1995). Topolčany: The Story of a Perished Ancient Community. Givat Haviva: Yad Yaari. OCLC 34310101.

References

  1. Büchler, Yehoshua (1995). "From the Testimony of Yehoshua Büchler about the Witness' Liberation By the U.S Army and his Return to Czechoslovakia" (PDF). The Anguish of Liberation- Testimonies from 1945. pp. 37–38.
  2. "Trauer um Robert Jehoshua Büchler (1929-2009)". Buchenwald Memorial. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  3. Silberklang, David (2013). Gates of Tears: the Holocaust in the Lublin District. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem. p. 12. ISBN 978-965-308-464-3.
  4. "Der Verdienstorden des Freistaats Thüringen • Virtuelles Ordensmuseum". Virtuelles Ordensmuseum (in German). Retrieved 22 January 2020.

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