Remembering Rohatyn and Its Environs: 2nd Edition - Hardcover

Berenbaum, Michael: - Michael Berenbaum (born July 31, 1945 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American scholar, professor, rabbi, writer, and filmmaker, who specializes in the study of the Holocaust. He served as Deputy Director of the President's Commission on the Holocaust (1979-1980), Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1988-1993), and Director of the USHMM's Holocaust Research Institute (1993-1997). Berenbaum played a leading role in the creation of the USHMM and the content of its permanent exhibition. From 1997 to 1999 he served as President and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, and subsequently (and currently) as Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust, located at the American Jewish University (formerly known as the University of Judaism), in Los Angeles, CA.Shwarzstein, Dora Gold: - Dora (Donia) Gold Shwarzstein has been involved in Holocaust-oriented activities for most of her life. She was first inspired to become actively involved in organizing and speaking about the Holocaust when the Nazis threatened to march in Skokie Illinois in 1976. In 1981, Donia was a founding member of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois and served as Chairman of Oral History and Documentarian. She set up two oral history projects; interviewing survivors and American liberators. In 1987, Donia organized the first Child Survivor Conference in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. From 1991 to 2009, Donia organized reunions for former Jewish refugees housed at the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Schlachtensee Displaced Persons camp in Berlin. Donia volunteered for the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and two memoirs in this volume first appeared in their publication, Together.