with Jack Schwartz, Tzipora Hager Halivni, Regina Gelb and more on Jan 27, 1995
Michael Berenbaum is an American scholar, professor, writer, and film-maker, who specializes in the study of the memorialization of the Holocaust. He is perhaps most famous for his work as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and as such should be considered the creator of the museum.
He is the author and editor of twelve books, including ?After Tragedy and Triumph,? a study of the state of American Jewry in the early 1990s. At present, Rabbi Berenbaum is serving as the editor for the Americana and Holocaust sections of the Encyclopaedia Judaica.
Berenbaum co-produced “One Survivor Remembers: The Gerda Weissmann Klein Story”, a film which was recognized with an Academy award, an Emmy Award and the Cable Ace Award. In 2001, Berenbaum was historical consultant for the History Channel’s “The Holocaust: The Untold Story”, which won the CINE Golden Eagle Award and a Silver Medal at the US International Film and Video Festival. He was also Executive Producer of a film entitled “Desperate Hours” on the Holocaust in Turkey and on “About Face: The Story of The Jewish Refugee Soldiers of WWII”
