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Michael-Berenbaum

Dr Michael Berenbaum

is an author, professor, rabbi, and advisor on historical films and museum design. At the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, he is a professor of Jewish Studies, and director of the Sigi Ziering Institute.
He was Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 1988-1993 and the first Director of its Research Institute. Later, he served as President and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (today the USC Shoah Foundation), which took testimony of 52,000 Holocaust survivors in 32 languages and 57 countries.