Mark Dvorzhetski (; 3 May 1908 – 15 March 1975) was an Israeli physician, historian and Holocaust survivor.

Biography

Mark Dvortzhetski was born in Lithuania (at the time part of the Russian Empire). He immigrated to Israel after World War II. He authored a number of books on the Holocaust, in particular with reference to the Baltic States and the medical profession.

Mark Dvorzhetski

Awards and recognition

In 1953, Dvorzhetski was awarded the Israel Prize, for social sciences, the inaugural year of the prize.

Mark Dvorzhetski

Published works

Between the Pieces - an autobiography

Yerusholaym de-Lita in kamf un umkum. Zikhroynes fun Vilner Geto [Lutte et chute de la Jérusalem-de-Lithuanie. Histoire du Ghetto de Vilna], Paris, L’Union Populaire Juive en France 1948 (Jerusalem of Lithuania in Revolt and in the Holocaust – History of the Vilna Ghetto and the Resistance Movement) Europe without Children: Nazi Plans for Biological Destruction The Jewish Camps in Estonia Hirshke Glik, Paris 1966

Mark Dvorzhetski

See also

List of Israel Prize recipients

References

Academic staff of Bar-Ilan University

Holocaust survivors

Israeli Ashkenazi Jews

20th-century Israeli physicians

Israel Prize in social sciences recipients

Israel Prize in social sciences recipients who were historians

Lithuanian Jews

Soviet emigrants to Israel

Israeli people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent

1908 births

1975 deaths

20th-century Israeli historians

Burials at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery