Yehuda Bauer is one of the most respected authorities on the subjects of the Holocaust, antisemitism and the Jewish resistance movement during the Shoah He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, emigrated with his family to Palestine in 1939. Bauer attended high school in Haifa and then joined the Palmach. He attended Cardiff University in Wales, interrupting his studies to fight in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, after which he completed his degree. He returned to Israel to continue his studies and received his doctorate from Hebrew University in 1960 for a thesis on the British Mandate of Palestine, and began teaching at the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University. He was a visiting professor at various universities and currently serves as academic adviser to Yad Vashem. He was the founding editor of the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and served on the editorial board of the Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust, published by Yad Vashem in 1990. The 'Yehuda Bauer Collection' comprises preliminary studies, sketches and documentation connected to his various publications on antisemitism, the Shoah, the planning and organisation of the annihilation of the European Jewry, especially in Slovakia and Hungary, rescue attempts, the Kasztner / Brand affair, Jewish resistance movements, the Brichah, and the Holocaust in historical perspective. Additionally, there is a collection of correspondence with various other historians of the Shoah.