Professor Dan Michman was born in Amsterdam in 1947. He is professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University. He came to Israel as a child in 1957, when his father, Joseph Michman (Melkman) was appointed Chairman of Yad Vashem. After his military service, he studied Jewish history and Hebrew language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he earned his doctorate in 1978 by writing a dissertation on Jewish refugees from Germany in Holland in 1933–1940. In 1976, he received an appointment from Bar-Ilan University to teach the Holocaust-related subjects, and since 1983 he has headed the university’s Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research. During that time, he devised a comprehensive academic course on Holocaust history for the Open University of Israel.

Prof. Michman has published numerous books and articles in different languages on the history of Dutch Jewry, Israeli society, and various aspects of Holocaust research—historiography, problems of Jewish refugees and migration, religious life, Judenrat and leadership, resistance, Western Europe, the survivors, etc.

Prof. Michman has been involved with Yad Vashem’s scholarly and educational activities since the early 1980s, and for several years has been a member of the board of the International Institute for Holocaust Research.

He is on the editorial board of Yad Vashem Studies and a member of the advisory committee of the International School for Holocaust Studies.

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