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Robert Jan van Pelt
Robert Jan van Pelt (born 15 August 1955) is a Dutch author, architectural historian, professor at the University of Waterloo 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 was an expert witness in Deborah Lipstadt's successful defence in the civil libel suit brought against her by David Irving.
Early life and career.
Van Pelt was born in Haarlem. At
, c1996)
- Dean, Martin: "Robbing the Jews - The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1935 - 1945", Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Dwork, Deborah. van Pelt, Robert Jan, "Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present" (1996)
- Dwork, Deborah and van Pelt, Robert Jan. "Holocaust: A History" (2002)
- Ehrenreich, Eric. "The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution" (