Yitzhak Arad
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Born | Icchak Rudnicki November 11, 1926[1] Święciany, Second Polish Republic |
Died | May 6, 2021 | (aged 94)
Nationality | Israel |
Occupation(s) | Historian, retired IDF brigadier general |
Yitzhak Arad (Hebrew: יצחק ארד) (né Icchak Rudnicki; November 11, 1926 – May 6, 2021) was an Israeli historian, author, IDF brigadier general. He was director of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993. His written works focused on the history of the Holocaust.