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Yitzhak Arad (Icchak Rudnicki) was born on November 11, 1926, in Svencionys, Panevezio Apskritis, Lithuania.
2009
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(Describes the struggles of the Jewish population of Vilna...)
Describes the struggles of the Jewish population of Vilna to survive and resist their persecution by the Nazis during World War II.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0870687530/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i5
1980
(The Holocaust in the Soviet Union is the most complete ac...)
The Holocaust in the Soviet Union is the most complete account to date of the Soviet Jews during World War II and the Holocaust (1941-1945).
https://www.amazon.com/Holocaust-Soviet-Union-Comprehensive-History-ebook-dp-B0899P19SJ/dp/B0899P19SJ/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=
2009
(The book pays a debt of gratitude to those who paid the u...)
The book pays a debt of gratitude to those who paid the ultimate price to achieve our victory.
https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Red-Banner-Yitzchak-Arad/dp/965229487X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=9789652294876&qid=1610743720&sr=8-1
2010
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Yitzhak Arad (Icchak Rudnicki) was born on November 11, 1926, in Svencionys, Panevezio Apskritis, Lithuania.
Yitzhak Arad finished Tarbut School and Tachkemuni High School in Lithuania. He continued his education at Tel Aviv University getting Bachelor's, Master's, and doctorate degree in History and Political Sciences.
In his youth, Yitzhak Arad belonged to the Zionist youth movement Ha-No'ar ha-Tsiyyoni. During the war, he was active in the ghetto underground movement from 1942 to 1944. In February 1943, Yitzhak Arad joined the Soviet partisans of the Markov Brigade, a primarily non-Jewish unit in which he had to contend with antisemitism. Apart from a foray infiltrating the Vilna Ghetto in April 1943 to meet with underground leader Abba Kovner, he stayed with the Soviet partisans until the end of the war, fighting the Germans, taking part in mining trains, and in ambushes around the Naroch Forest of Belarus.
In December 1945, Yitzhak Arad immigrated without authorization to Mandate Palestine, on the Ha'apala boat named after Hannah Szenes. In Arad's military career in the IDF, he reached the rank of brigadier general and was appointed to the post of Chief Education Officer. Yitzhak Arad retired from the military in 1972.
Yitzhak Arad's academic career started after WW2 when he moved to Israel. He was a lecturer on Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, has published both as an author and editor, mostly in Hebrew. Also served as Chairman of the Directorate in Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Authority, for 21 years.
(The Holocaust in the Soviet Union is the most complete ac...)
2009(Describes the struggles of the Jewish population of Vilna...)
1980(The book pays a debt of gratitude to those who paid the u...)
2010Yitzhak Arad was born Icchak Rudnicki, later adopting the Hebrew surname Arad. During World War II, he was known as Tolya (Russian diminutive for Anatoly) in the underground and among the partisans.
In 2006, following a story in the Lithuanian Respublika newspaper that called Yitzhak Arad a "war criminal" for his alleged role in the Koniuchy massacre perpetrated by anti-Nazi Soviet partisans, the Lithuanian state prosecutor initiated an investigation of Arad. Following an international outcry, the investigation was dropped in the fall of 2008.
Yitzhak Arad is married with 3 children.