Academic Committee

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Prof. Steven Katz, Chair

Former Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies,
Boston University

Alvin J. and Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish and Holocaust Studies,
Boston University

Dr. Eliyana Adler

Associate Professor in History and Jewish Studies,
Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Karel Berkhoff

Senior Researcher,
NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Lecturer in Holocaust and Genocide Studies,
University of Amsterdam

Dr. Andrea Löw

Deputy Head, Center for Holocaust Studies, 
Institute for Contemporary History in Munich

J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro
Senior Scholar-in-Residence 2022,
Mandel Center, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Dr. Joanna Michlic

Honorary Senior Research Associate,
Centre for the Study of Collective Violence, the Holocaust and Genocide,
UCL Institute for Advanced Studies

Honorary Senior Associate,
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)

Visiting Full Professor of Contemporary History and the Holocaust 2023-2025,
Department of History,
Lund University

Founder and Director
HBI  Project on Jewish Families, Children, and the Holocaust,
(Hadassah-Brandeis Institute),
Brandeis University

Dr. Antony Polonsky

Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies,
Brandeis University

Chief Historian
Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw

Co-Founder and Vice President
Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies

Dr. David Silberklang

Senior Historian,
International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem

Adjunct Professor,
Haifa University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem