Zvi Dror

{{short description|Israeli historian}}

Zvi Dror (alt. Zvika Dror) ({{Langx|he|צבי דרור}}; born September 1, 1926){{Cite web|url=http://www.palmach.org.il/memorial/fighterpage/?itemId=86291|title=דרור צביקה|website=www.palmach.org.il|language=he|access-date=2019-05-12}} is an Israeli historian of Zionism and the creation of the state of Israel. His books were published in Hebrew.

Dror was a member of Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot.

Tom Segev describes Dror as the "author of one of the most important books ever written about Holocaust survivors in Israel", a four-volume work that chronicles the lives of the survivors who founded Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot. According to Anita Shapira, who translates the title as "Testimony pages" the stories of the 96 founders recorded by Dror were "one of the first projects to coax the mute to speak" about the Holocaust.{{cite journal |last1=Shapira |first1=Anita |title=The Holocaust: Private Memories, Public Memory |journal=Jewish Social Studies |date=31 January 1998 |volume=4 |issue=2|pages=40–58 |doi=10.2979/JSS.1998.4.2.40 }} Many of the founders of Lohamei HaGeta'ot—whose stories Dror recorded—had participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.{{cite book |last1=Duchen |first1=Claire |last2=Bandhauer-Schoffmann |first2=Irene |title=When the War Was Over: Women, War, and Peace in Europe, 1940-1956 |date=2010 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=9781441172709 |page=185 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=exudCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Zvi+Dror%22.&pg=PA185 |access-date=12 May 2019}}{{cite journal |last1=Geva |first1=Sharon |s2cid=147059685 |title="To collect the tears of the Jewish people": the story of Miriam Novitch |journal=Holocaust Studies |date=2015 |volume=21 |issue=1 |page=73 |doi=10.1080/17504902.2015.1062276}}

Dror has written on the founding of Kibbutz Beit HaArava, as well as a biography of Palmach commander Yitzhak Sadeh.