Awards & Winners

Robert Jan van Pelt

Date of Birth 15-August-1955
Place of Birth Haarlem
(Netherlands, North Holland, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Holland)
Nationality Netherlands
Also know as Robert-Jan van Pelt
Robert Jan van Pelt is an author, architectural historian, professor at the University of Waterloo and University of Toronto in Ontario and a Holocaust scholar. One of the world's leading experts on Auschwitz, he regularly speaks on Holocaust related topics, through which he has come to address Holocaust denial. He successfully helped defend Deborah Lipstadt in the civil libel suit brought against her by David Irving.

Awards by Robert Jan van Pelt

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert Jan van Pelt.

1996


National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust
Honored for : Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present

1994


Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada
(German & East European History)