弗裏德蘭德爾齣生於布拉格，1939年逃往法國，1948年移居以色列。他現在在洛杉磯的加利福尼亞大學講授曆史。　　1997年，索爾·弗裏德蘭德爾的《迫害的年代：納粹德國與猶太人，1933一1939》齣版發行，這是他的兩捲曆史著作《納粹德國與猶太人》的第一捲。他在前言中說．他的意圖是”從曆史角度真實記錄大屠殺．把凶手實施的政策、周圍社會的態度和受害者的世界放在一個完整的框架裏”。弗裏德蘭德爾的第二捲《滅絕的年代：納粹德國與猶太人．1939—1945》也是一樣。這本書如今已經成為記述納粹德國大規模謀殺歐洲猶太人的權威曆史著作。

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This epic book completes the richest and fullest study yet made of the Nazis' persecution of the Jews. Based on a vast scholarly literature, it also incorporates original research and personal letters, diaries, etc. Acclaim for Volume 1: "This will be the standard work for many years to come" (Daniel Johnson, The Times) "There have been many books about Nazism's persecution of the Jews, but none as magisterial or comprehensive as this" (Richard Evans, Sunday Telegraph) "The merits of this work are many; it is easily the best book of a distinguished historian. It is based on a great variety of sources, published and unpublished, and the judgement of the author cannot be faulted on any major issue...This is a very good, very important book. It needed to be written before the last historians disappear who, because of the date and place of their birth and their personal experience, know certain things in their bones about the period of the Holocaust." (Walter Lacquer, Los Angeles Times) "Saul Friedlander is the most astute, sophisticated and stylish historian of the Holocaust working in any language today." (Michael Burleigh)