Sir Martin Gilbert British Historian

        Sir Martin Gilbert, shown with the bust of Winston Churchill, whose biography he wrote.

Some of us may know about Benjamin Disraeli as the one British Prime Minister who was a Jew serving during the days of Queen Victoria.

I have recently discovered a British Jewish historian who wrote numerous books, is recognised as one of Britain's great historians, and wrote the biography of Sir Winston Churchill.

He is Sir Martin Gilbert/ His parents were Russian Jews who escaped to Britain, where Martin obtained his brilliant University degrees and later became an acknowledged historian academician.

He was a practising Jew and has given public lectures in Britain, America and in Israel. He has spoken on the Europeans who helped the Jews escape the Holocaust during the Nazi occupation of the countries concerned.

He passed away in 2015.