Holocaust Historian Wins US$35,500 German Book Trade Peace Prize
UCLA Professor and Holocaust historian Saul Friedlander has won the 2007 German Book Trade Peace Prize, the most prestigious literary prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair. To mark the official opening of the 2007 Buchhändlertage in Berlin, Dr. Gottfried Honnefelder, Director of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, announced on Sunday, that the Board of Trustees of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade has chosen the Israeli historian, Saul Friedländer, to be the recipient of this year’s Peace Prize. Friedlander is one of the last historiographers to have witnessed and experienced the Holocaust - a genocide that was announced early on, planned openly and carried out with machinelike precision... More details SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH ISRAELI HISTORIAN SAUL FRIEDLÄNDER PHOTO CREDIT: SPIEGEL. Related news .