Jehuda Bauer, the Holocaust historian who claimed that there was no genocide in Srebrenica, has passed away

Yehuda Bauer, a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and one of the world’s most famous Holocaust historians, died tonight at the age of 98, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance announced.

“It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our honorary chairman Yehuda Bauer. He left an indelible mark on both the IHRA and the field of Holocaust studies, and his moral leadership, insight and friendship will be sorely missed,” the IHRA states.

According to The Times of Israel, Bauer has published over 40 books on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, with a focus on Jewish reactions to both. His early research focused on organized Jewish resistance to the Nazi regime, but in his later work he addressed larger issues of anti-Semitism and the historical significance of the Holocaust.

In recent decades, Bauer has become involved in policy related to anti-Semitism and the scholar has played an important role in the IHRA since its founding in 1998 and helped draft the controversial but popular working definition of anti-Semitism.

Before the vote in the UN General Assembly on the Resolution on Srebrenica, Bauer was determined that genocide did not take place there.

In the documentary film of the Center for Social Stability, he says that Srebrenica cannot be considered a typical case of genocide.

“Srebrenica cannot be considered a typical case of genocide. It was a mass killing of members of one group by members of another group. There are hundreds of such cases throughout history,” said Bauer in an interview conducted for the purposes of the documentary film “Anatomy of Deception: Srebrenica” produced by the Center for Social Stability.

Born in 1926 in Prague, Bauer and his family fled to Mandatory Palestine in 1939, the day Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia.