Address followed by light reception and access to exhibit, The World Knew: Jan Karski’s Mission For Humanity.

Space is limited and registration is required.

About the speaker

Dr. Michael Berenbaum is one of the world’s foremost experts on the Holocaust.  He served as Project Director overseeing the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the first Director of the USHMM’s Research Institute. He later served as President and CEO of the Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which took the testimony of 52,000 Holocaust survivors in 32 languages and 57 countries. His work in film has won Emmy Awards and Academy Awards.  He has developed and curated Museums in the United States, Mexico, North Macedonia and Poland and his award winning exhibition Auschwitz” Not Long Ago, Not Far Away has been in Madrid and Malmo, New York, Kansas City, the Ronald Regan Library in California, Boston, and Toronto. He is the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust and a Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish University, the author of 24 books, and scores of scholarly pieces.