International Advisory Committee


Prof. Ziva Amishai-Maisels

Professor emerita, Department of Art History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dr. Batya Brutin

Beit Berl Academic College

Prof. David Engel

New York University

Dr. Natasha Goldman

Research Associate, Bowdoin College and President, WISSEN, Inc.

Ruth Ellen Gruber

Jewish Heritage Europe

Milda Jakulytė-Vasil

Chief curator of the exhibition of the Museum "Lost Shtetl," Šeduva Jewish Memorial Fund

Dr. Eva Janáčová

Research Fellow, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Dr. Rebecka Katz Thor

Senior lecturer at REMESO, Linköping University, and head of vision and knowledge production at The Swedish Holocaust Museum

Dr.-Ing. Katrin Kessler

Bet-Tfila - Reseach Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe, Technische Universität Braunschweig

Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator, Core Exhibition, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Professor Emerita of Performance Studies, New York University

Dr. Miriam Klein-Kassenoff

Education Chairperson at the Holocaust Memorial, Greater Miami Jewish Federation in Miami Beach, Florida
Director of the Summer Teacher Institute on Holocaust Studies through the University of Miami's School of Education

PD Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Knufinke

Scientific Director, Bet Tfila - Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe, Technische Universität Braunschweig

Dr. Sergey R. Kravtsov

Research Fellow, The Center for Jewish Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ilya Lensky

Director, Museum "Jews in Latvia"

Susan Myers

President, Association of Holocaust Organizations

Prof. Galit Noga-Banai

Department of History of Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dr. Max Polonovski

Honorary General Curator of Heritage, Ministry of Culture, France

Dr. Diana I. Popescu

Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London

Prof. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

Professor of History, Fairfield University

Prof. Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska

Director, German Historical Institute Warsaw

Dr. William L. Shulman

Past President of the Association of Holocaust Organizations

David J. Simon

Director, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University

Dr. Oren Baruch Stier

Director, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program and Professor of Religious Studies
Florida International University

Dr. Olga Ungar

International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem

Arielle Weininger

Chief Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center

Mark Weitzman

Chief Operating Officer, World Jewish Restitution Organization
Past Chair, Museums and Memorials Working Group, International Holocaust Remembrance Allaince (IHRA)

Dr. James E. Young

Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Founding Director, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Dr. Arkadi Zeltser

Director of the Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union at the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem