| LC control no. | no2018150635 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Steiner, John M., 1925-2014 |
| Variant(s) | Steiner, John Michael, 1925-2014 |
| Other standard no. | Q17977105 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Melbourne (Vic.) Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) |
| Located | Novato (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1925-08-03 |
| Death date | 2014-05-06 |
| Place of birth | Prague (Czech Republic) |
| Place of death | Novato (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Research |
| Affiliation | Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Blechhammer (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) Reichenbach (Concentration camp) Sonoma State University |
| Profession or occupation | Sociologists Historians College teachers |
| Found in | Reflections on experiences in Nazi death camps, 2001: title page (by John M. Steiner) page 1 (he was an inmate in Blechhammer camp) Legacy.com, 2 November 2018 (John Michael Steiner Ph.D.; Holocaust survivor, born 1925 in Prague, he died in 2014; he taught at Sonoma State University, and was founding Director of its Holocaust Studies Center; he lived in Novato; he researched perpetrators of the Holocaust, graduating in 1968 with a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Freiburg) Wikipedia, 20 May 2024 (John Michael Steiner; b. 3 Aug. 1925 in Prague; d. 6 May 2014 in Novato, CA; Czech-American sociologist and Holocaust researcher; in 1942 arrested and imprisoned in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Blechhammer, Reichenbach and finally Dachau, from whence he was liberated in 1945; returned to Prague and studied medicine at Charles University 1946-1949; emigrated to Australia, studied German philology and psychology at Melbourne University (B.A. in 1952); travelled to US, studied sociology and German philology at University of Missouri in Columbia (M.A. in 1955); worked at state prison in San Quentin, CA, taught at Univ. of Calif., Berkeley 1956-1959; became US citizen in 1958; in 1962 went to Freiburg, dissertation under Eduard Baumgarten; appointed prof. of sociology at Sonoma State University in 1968 (emer. 1997)) |
| Associated language | eng ger |
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