print this page

Directory of Experts

IHRA’s Directory of Experts is a list of IHRA delegates with specific areas of expertise who are willing to speak with the media. 

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is the only intergovernmental body devoted specifically to Holocaust education, remembrance and research.  IHRA consists of an extensive network of international experts appointed by their national governments to the delegations of IHRA’s 31 member countries and five observer countries. 

Interested journalists are requested to contact IHRA’s Permanent Office (info [at] holocaustremembrance.com, +49 30 2630 6660) to be put in touch with the relevant experts.  

Inclusion in the Directory of Experts is voluntary.  Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of all IHRA delegates.       

 

Naomi Azrieli

Delegation of Canada - Education Working Group

Areas of Expertise:  First person Holocaust survivor memoirs, Holocaust Education in Canada, New media and Holocaust education

Languages: English, French

 

Zanet Battinou

Delegation of Greece  -  Museums and Memorials Working Group

Areas of Expertise:  Holocaust Education, specifically in Greece

Languages:  English, Greek

 

Marc van Berkel

Delegation of the Netherlands  -  Education Working Group

Areas of Expertise:  The Holocaust in Germany and the Netherlands, Holocaust and Genocide Education

Languages:  Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish

 

Karel Berkhoff

Delegation of the Netherlands  -  Academic Working Group

Areas of Expertise:  The Holocaust in the eastern Europe and the Netherlands

Languages:  Dutch, English, German, French, Russian, Ukrainian

 

Christophe Busch

Delegation of Belgium - Museums and Memorials Working group

Areas of Expertise: Holocaust and genocide studies, criminology, perpetrator behavior

Languages: Dutch, English

 

Gina Csanyi-Robah

Delegation of Canada - Education Working Group

Areas of Expertise: Roma History and Diaspora, Hate Speech and racially motivated violence targeting Roma, Roma Genocide during the Holocaust, Roma Displaced Persons and Refugees, current Neo-Nazism and White Nationalism in the EU, contemporary anti-Gypsyism / Romaphobia (North America and Europe)

Languages: English, Hungarian, Romanes

 

Wesley Fisher

Claims Conference (Permanent International Partner of IHRA)  -  Academic Working Group

Areas of Expertise:  Looted art, Judaica, and other cultural property, Property restitution, Funding of Holocaust education, remembrance and research

Languages:   English, French, Russian

 

Annemiek Gringold

Delegation of the Netherlands  -  Museums and Memorials Working Group/  Committee on Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity

Areas of Expertise:  Holocaust exhibition curator, Holocaust commemoration in the Netherlands, Holocaust education in the field of memorials and museums

Languages:  Dutch, English, Hebrew

 

Herman Van Goethem

Delegation of Belgium - Academic Working Group 

Areas of Expertise: The Holocaust in Belgium, Holocaust and Human Rights education in the field of memorials and museums; political history of Belgium

Languages: Dutch, French, English

 

Olivia Marks-Woldman

Delegation of United Kingdom- Museums and Memorials Working Group

Areas of Expertise: Holocaust and genocide commemoration

Languages: English

 

Michael Newman

Delegation of United Kingdom - Communication Working Group

Areas of Expertise: Holocaust era restitution and compensation, advising survivors and family members to claim reparations and assets.

Languages: English

 

Karen Polak

Delegation of the Netherlands  -  Education Working Group/ Committee on the Genocide of the Roma

Areas of Expertise:  The Holocaust in the Netherlands, Holocaust education in the field of memorials and museums, genocide of the Roma and Sinti

Languages:  Dutch, English

 

Otto Rühl

Delegation of Denmark  -  Education Working Group

Areas of Expertise:  Holocaust education in Denmark, History of the Danish Jews during the Holocaust

Languages:  Danish, English, German

 

Heidemarie Uhl

Delegation of Austria  -  Museums and Memorials Working Group

Areas of Expertise:  The Holocaust in European memory

Languages:  English, German

 

Elisabeth Ungureanu

Delegation of Romania - Communication Working Group

Areas of Expertise: Holocaust education

Languages: English, Romanian, Italian

 

Veerle Vanden Daelen

Delegation of Belgium - Academic Working Group 

Areas of Expertise: The Holocaust in Belgium, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, Archival access, Post-war return of Jewish life to Antwerp, History of Antwerp Jewish community

Languages: Dutch, French, English, German

 

Felicia Waldman

Delegation of Romania - Education Working Group

Areas of Expertise: Romanian Jewish History and Heritage, Holocaust education and remembrance in Romania, and the Romanian Holocaust in film and theatre

Languages: English, Romanian

 

Mark Weitzman

Delegation of the United States - Museums and Memorials Working Group

Areas of Expertise: Antisemitism, Holocaust denial

Languages: English, Hebrew

 

Juliane Wetzel

Delegation of Germany - Academic Working Group

Areas of Expertise: Solidarity and help for Jews and Jewish emigration during the Nazi period, Jewish Displaced Persons, Holocaust denial, contemporary antisemitism

Languages: German, English, Italian

 

Robert J. Williams

Delegation of the United States - Academic Working Group

Areas of Expertise: Propaganda, Holocaust in Central Europe, Nationalism, Political Culture, Contemporary Antisemitism (Europe and US), Foreign Relations (cold war through present), Holocaust Memory, Archival Access

Languages: English, German, French, basic Russian, basic Italian