Madam Speaker. it is my pleasure to congratulate UCLA history professor Saul Friedlander. who was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize in General NonFiction for his work. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews. 19391945. Professor Friedlander was born to Germanspeaking Jewish parents in Prague in 1932 and raised in France during the Nazi occupation. Not until 1946 did he discover that his parents perished at Auschwitz. After immigrating to Israel at the time of its birth as a nation. he was able to pursue his passion for knowledge. After studying in Israel and Paris. he received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. In 1983.
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