Mark Dvorzhetski
Encyclopedia
Mark Dvorzhetski was an Israel
i physician, historian and Holocaust survivor. He was born in Lithuania
(at the time part of the Russian Empire
) and emigrated to Israel
after World War II
. He authored a number of books on the Holocaust, in particular with reference to the Baltic States
and the medical profession.
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i physician, historian and Holocaust survivor. He was born in Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
(at the time part of the Russian Empire
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
) and emigrated to Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
after World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. He authored a number of books on the Holocaust, in particular with reference to the Baltic States
Baltic states
The term Baltic states refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ; Finland also fell within the scope of the term after initially gaining independence in the 1920s.The...
and the medical profession.
Awards
- In 1953, Dvorzhetski was awarded the Israel PrizeIsrael PrizeThe Israel Prize is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is largely regarded as the state's highest honor. It is presented annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Knesset chairperson, and the...
, for social sciences, the inaugural year of the prize.
Published works
(Titles freely translated from the Hebrew)- Between the Pieces - an autobiography
- Jerusalem of Lithuania in Revolt and in the Holocaust – History of the Vilna Ghetto and the Resistance Movement
- Europe without Children: Nazi Plans for Biological Destruction
- The Jewish Camps in Estonia
- Hirshke Glik, Paris 1966