The John Najmann Chair of Holocaust Studies
The John Najmann Chair of Holocaust Studies was endowed by his wife and children in memory of Isaak John Najmann who believed that every generation should know and remember
The Annual Lecture of the John Najmann Chair of Holocaust Studies, December 2007
Isaak (John) Najmann was born in Breslau, then Germany, in 1924. The son of Blima and Chuno, he was the eldest of four children, and the product of, in his words, an “intensely Jewish and Zionist family.” In 1939, he was sent to England on the Kindertransport, as were his siblings. John Najmann had a fervent interest in the Holocaust. A cornerstone of his life was a determination to give meaning to the Holocaust through study, research and preservation of the memory of the victims. John Najmann passed away in 1998. In 2003, his wife and children established the John Najmann Chair of Holocaust Studies, whose purpose is to support the activities of the International Institute for Holocaust Research – Yad Vashem. The Head of the Institute and incumbent of the John Najmann Chair of Holocaust Studies is Prof. Dan Michman. Each year the Institute hosts an annual lecture in John Najmann’s memory.
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