Background
Dan Kurzman was born in San Francisco, the son of Joseph and Lillian Kurzman.
Dan Kurzman was born in San Francisco, the son of Joseph and Lillian Kurzman.
He studied at the University of California in Berkeley, served United States. Army from 1943 to 1946, and completed his studies at Berkeley with a Bachelor degree in political science.
In the early 1950s, he worked in Europe and in Israel for American newspapers and news agencies and was then correspondent of the National Broadcasting Company News in Jerusalem. In 1960 he published his first political book, a biography of the Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. In the 1960s, Kurzman worked as a foreign policy correspondent for the Washington Post.
After the end of the sixties, the Washington Post had left, he devoted himself to researching and writing Modern History, especially military history non-fiction.
He is also a recipient of the Cornelius Ryan Award. A Polish-Israeli research team have suggested that much of what Kurzman wrote about the Warsaw Ghetto was actually tainted by the personal testimony of unreliable Polish witnesses, most notably, Henryk Iwanski, who deliberately magnified their own role in wartime Warsaw.
Dariusz Libionka and Laurence Weinbaum suggest that Kurzman accepted the account of Iwanski who presented himself as hero, uncritically, and that Iwanski"s testimony should be treated as confabulation. He died December 12, 2010 at the age of 88, in Manhattan.