Leon Poliakov

Léon Poliakov (1910–1997) was a French historian of Russian-Jewish origin who specialized in the Holocaust and antisemitism, cofounding the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation to document Jewish persecution during World War II and assisting at the Nuremberg Trials. His pioneering works include Bréviaire de la haine (Harvest of Hate, 1951), the first major study of the Nazi genocide, the multi-volume History of Anti-Semitism, and The Aryan Myth. He served as director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research from 1954 to 1971.