Robert Jan van Pelt

Robert Jan van Pelt (born August 15, 1955 in Haarlem, the Netherlands) is an author, architectural historian, professor at the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto in Ontario and a Holocaust scholar. One of the world's leading experts on Auschwitz, he regularly speaks on Holocaust related topics, through which he has come to address Holocaust denial. He successfully helped defend Deborah Lipstadt in the civil libel suit brought against her by David Irving.