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Yehuda Bauer headed the institute for Holocaust research at Yad Vashem from 1996 to 2000.
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VIENNA (AFP)---Austria awarded the Israeli historian, Yehuda Bauer, one of its highest awards Thursday for his work and research on the Holocaust.
At a ceremony in Austria's education ministry, State Secretary Hans Winkler awarded Czech-born Bauer the Golden Honour Badge for Merit of the Republic of Austria.
According to a press release from the foreign ministry, Winkler said Bauer, 82, had become an "irreplaceable" advisor to Austria with regard to the Holocaust and his work had contributed to Austria joining the International Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF).
Bauer's work had helped "de-mythologise the Holocaust and create a real culture of remembrance", the statement said.
Born in Prague in 1926, Bauer emigrated to Palestine in 1939 -- the year the Czech part of what was Czechoslovakia came under the control of Nazi Germany -- and began his international academic career. He became one of the leading researchers into the Holocaust.
Bauer headed the institute for Holocaust research at Yad Vashem from 1996 to 2000.