Board of Advisors

Michael Berenbaum (U.S.), author and editor of twelve books with a focus on the Holocaust as well as sought-after consultant on Holocaust projects including films.

Paul A. Levine (Sweden) historian, author of From Indifference to Activism: Swedish Diplomacy and the Holocaust, 1938-1944.

Rabbi Bent Melchior (Denmark) rescued in 1943, retired chief rabbi of the Copenhagen Synagogue and son of Rabbi Marcus Melchior, who first warned his community of the imminent roundup by the Nazis.

*Therkel Stræde (Denmark) historian and curator of the international traveling exhibition, Denmark in October, 1943: The Rescue of the Danish Jews from Annihilation displayed in the Rotunda of the Russell Senate Building, May 2001.

Leni Yahil (Israel) historian and author of The Rescue of Danish Jewry considered as the "bible" of the subject's scholarly works.

Scholar Consultants

*Sofie Lene Bak - an important young and upcoming scholar in Denmark who is the Research Librarian at the Royal National Library in Copenhagen and has recently published The Persecution of the Jews, October, 1943. Perceptions in Public Opinion and Research.

Lawrence Baron, Nasatir Professor of Modern Jewish History and Director, Lipinski Institute for Judaic Studies, San Diego State University.

Andrew Buckser, Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University, whose work addresses that even through moral ambiguity and uncertainty, we can still produce moral choices that are good.

Paula E. Hyman, Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University, has extensive publications in Holocaust studies, in particular The Jews of Modern France, "Memory, Gender, and Identity in Modern Jewish History"; and The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace.

Leo Goldberger, Professor of Psychology at New York University. Has edited Copenhagen 1943 of the Danish Jews: Moral Courage under Stress. Son of the Cantor in the Copenhagen Synagogue in 1943, he was among those who escaped from Denmark in 1943. His major interests are stress and coping, the Holocaust and altruistic behavior, and psychoanalytic theory.

Michael Mogensen, Assistant Professor, The University of Århus, Denmark has uncovered letters and diaries in Swedish archives that had been written by Danish Jews during their exile in Sweden. This work has been conducted under the auspices of the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Samuel P. Oliner, Professor of Sociology, Humboldt State University, California, founder and director of The Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute. Author of (together with Pearl M. Oliner) The Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe and many other related works.

Lone J. Rünitz, Cand. Phil., Researcher at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Copenhagen. She has written (Denmark and the Jewish Refugees, 1933-1940), dealing with refugees and human rights (2000).