Michael Berenbaum: Keynote Speaker at LeFrak Holocaust Education Conference 2009

Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Education Conference 2009 (Updates and Links)

Michael Berenbaum is director of the Sigi Ziering Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Ethics at American Jewish University.

A writer, lecturer, scholar, professor and consultant for the conceptual development of museums and the development of historical films, Berenbaum will deliver the keynote speech for the LeFrak Holocaust Education Conference at Seton Hill University this October.

“One Survivor Remembers: The Gerda Weissman Klein Story,” a film he co-produced, received an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and a Cable Ace Award, and “The Last Days,” a feature-length documentary on which he served as historical consultant, also earned an Academy Award.

Berenbaum has served on the President’s Commission on the Holocaust, as both project director and research institute director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and as president and chief executive officer of Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.

Berenbaum is also the author and editor of eighteen books and hundreds of scholarly articles.

The title of his speech is "The Memory of the Holocaust: Challenges to 21st Century Christians and Jews."

Links:

• Michael Berenbaum's biography (American Jewish University)
  
• One Survivor Remembers (Internet Movie Database)
• The Last Days (Internet Movie Database)
• LeFrak Conference Press Release (NCCHE)
• USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education (USC)