International Advisory Committee
Holocaust Survivor Day was initiated by JCC Krakow and is now led by a growing committee of activists, scholars, Jewish communal leaders, rabbis and other leading figures in the world of Holocaust education and commemoration.
Meryl Ain
Author, The Takeaway Men: A Novel
Colette Avital
Chairperson, Center Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel
Ellen Bachner Greenberg
Co-founder and President, Descendants of Holocaust Survivors (2G Greater NY)
Smadar Bar-Akiva
Executive Director, JCC Global
Anat Barber
Assistant Director, Capital Gifts and Special Initiatives, UJA Federation of New York
Staci Barber
Co-Chair, JFNA's Holocaust Survivor Initiative
Judy Batalion
Author, "The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos"
Rabbi Avi Baumol
Rabbinic Representative of the Chief Rabbi of Poland in Krakow
Carol Becker
Businesswoman, Philanthropist
Avi Benlolo
Founding Chairman & CEO, The Abraham Global Peace Initiative
Michael Berenbaum
Director, Sigi Ziering Institute at the American Jewish University
Herbert Block
Executive Director, American Zionist Movement
Sharon Buenos
Global Director, Zikaron BaSalon
Joel Citron
Vice-Chairman, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation
Ulrika Citron
USC Shoah Foundation Next Generation Council member
Angela Cohen
Chairman, '45 Aid Society
William Daroff
Chief Executive Officer, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Tova Dorfman
President, World Zionist Organization
Rabbi Mark Dratch
Executive Vice President, Rabbinical Council of America
Cheryl Fishbein
Chair, Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Phyllis Greenberg Heideman
President, International March of the Living
Marcy Gringlas
President & Co-Founder, Seed the Dream Foundation
Malcolm Hoenlein
Executive Vice Chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Shira Hutt
Executive Vice President, JFNA
Rabba Batya Jacobs
Yerushalayim Torah Academy
Avi Jorisch
Author, Entrepreneur
Beth Kean
Executive Director, Holocaust Museum LA
Barbara Kirshenblatt Gimblett
Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Rabbi David Seth Kirshner
Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, in NJ
Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff
Director, Holocaust Teacher Education Institute, School of Education, University of Miami
Doron Krakow
President and CEO, JCC Association of North America
Hannah Lessing
Secretary General, General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism
Helise Lieberman
Executive Director, Taube Center for Jewish Life & Learning Foundation
Dianne Lob
Chair, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Lindsay Matloff
Director, Leadership Operations, JFNA
Mark Medin
Executive Vice President, UJA Federation of New York
Susan Myers
President, The Association of Holocaust Organizations (AHO)
Michael Newman
Chief Executive, The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR)
Jonathan Ornstein
Executive Director, JCC Krakow
Lizzie Oved Scheja
Founder & Director, Judisk Kultur i Sverige
Rabbi Michael Paley
Senior Scholar at Joint Distribution Committee
Shana Penn
Executive Director, Taube Philanthropies
Lord Eric Pickles
United Kingdom Special Envoy for post-Holocaust issues
Shelley Rood Wernick
Managing Director, Center on Holocaust Survivor Care and Institute on Aging and Trauma at JFNA
Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg
Chairman, Holocaust Commission of the New York Board of Rabbis
Elana Rosenfield
President, 3GDC
Menachem Rosensaft
General Counsel and Associate Executive Vice President, World Jewish Congress
Eli Rubenstein
Director of Education, International March of the Living
Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein
Senior VP, Jewish Community
Managing Director, 92Y Bronfman Center
Stacey Saiontz
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Trustee
Scott Saunders
Founder & Chairman, March of the Living UK
Mariano Schlimovich
Executive Director, European Council of Jewish Communities
Rabbi Michael Schudrich
Chief Rabbi of Poland
Edward Serotta
Director, Centropa
Jordana Siegel
Young Leaders Liaison
Paula Slier
CEO and Founder, Newshound Media International
Rabbi Josh Spinner
Executive VP and CEO, Ronald S. Lauder Foundation
Dariusz Stola
Professor, Institute of Political Studies in Warsaw, former Director of the POLIN Museum
Zygmunt Stępiński
Director, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Elizabeth Szancer
Art Curator
Tad Taube
Chariman, Taube Philanthropies
Gideon Taylor
Board President, Claims Conference
Vicki Warner
President, Friends of JCC Krakow
Mark Wilf
Chairman of the Board of Governors, The Jewish Agency for Israel
Anita Winter
Founder and President, Gamaraal Foundation
Piotr Wiślicki
Chairperson, Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland
Rabbi David Wolpe
Max Webb Senior Rabbi at Temple Sinai
Maria Zalewska
Executive Director, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation