Berenbaum, Michael

Michael Berenbaum is professor of Jewish Studies and director of the Sigi Zieirng Institute at the American Jewish University. The author or editor of more than twenty books, he was project director overseeing the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the first director of its research institute.  He later served as president and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.  He is the founder and head of the Berenbaum Group, whose film productions and museum designs focus on the Holocaust and other genocides.