Yehoshua Büchler

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Robert Yehoshua Büchler
Born(1929-01-01)January 1, 1929
DiedAugust 14, 2009(2009-08-14) (aged 80)
OccupationHistorian
AwardsOrder of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia
Büchler pictured in front row wearing shorts at a Shavuot service in recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp, 18 May 1945

Robert Yehoshua Büchler (Hebrew: יהושע_ביכלר 1929–2009) was a Slovak-Israeli historian. In 1944, he was deported from Slovakia and survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.[1][2] He was the director of the Moreshet Archive [he] in Israel.[3] Büchler was awarded the Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia.[4]

Works[edit]

  • Büchler, Yehoshua Robert (1995). Topolčany: The Story of a Perished Ancient Community. Givat Haviva: Yad Yaari. OCLC 34310101.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Büchler, Yehoshua (1995). "From the Testimony of Yehoshua Büchler about the Witness' Liberation By the U.S Army and his Return to Czechoslovakia" (PDF). The Anguish of Liberation- Testimonies from 1945. pp. 37–38.
  2. ^ "Trauer um Robert Jehoshua Büchler (1929-2009)". Buchenwald Memorial. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  3. ^ Silberklang, David (2013). Gates of Tears: the Holocaust in the Lublin District. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem. p. 12. ISBN 978-965-308-464-3.
  4. ^ "Der Verdienstorden des Freistaats Thüringen • Virtuelles Ordensmuseum". Virtuelles Ordensmuseum (in German). Retrieved 22 January 2020.