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Michael Berenbaum - Historian
Michael Berenbaum is a writer, lecturer, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and the historical development of films. He is also director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust and an adjunct Professor of Theology at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. In the past, he has served as the Ida E. King Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at Richard Stockton College for 1999-2000 and the Strassler Family Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies at Clark University in 2000. For the prior three years, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C and Project Director of its creation. Berenbaum is the author and editor of fourteen books, scores of scholarly articles and hundreds of journalistic pieces. Among his works are A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors, After Tragedy and Triumph, The World Must Know, Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp with, " A Mosaic of Victims: Non Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis, The Vision of the Void: Theological Reflections on the Works of Elie Wiesel, and Witness to the Holocaust: An Illustrated Documentary History of the Holocaust in the Words of Its Victims, Perpetrators, and Bystanders. He was co-editor on several works, including The Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications (with John Roth), The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed and the Reexamined (with Abraham Peck), and most recently, The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It? ( with Michael Neufeld). In film, his work as Co-Producer of One Survivor Remembers: The Gerda Weissman Klein Story was recognized with an Academy Award, an Emmy Award and the Cable Ace Award. He was the historical consultant on The Shoah Foundation’s Documentary, The Last Days, which won an Academy Award for the best feature length documentary of 1998. Over the past several years, Berenbaum was a historical consultant or chief historical consultant for:
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