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Prof. Władysław Bartoszewski - Chairman |
 Władysław Bartoszewski was born in Warsaw in 1922. He studied at the humanities faculty of Warsaw University. |
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Prof. Barbara Engelking - Deputy Chairman |
 Barbara Engelking was born in 1962. She is a sociologist and psychologist. Head of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The author of numerous papers and books on World War II and the Holocaust.
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Avner Shalev - Deputy Chairman |
 Avner Shalev has been Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate since 1993. Upon becoming Chairman, Shalev initiated a multi-year development plan aimed at equipping Yad Vashem with the necessary tools to address the challenges of Holocaust remembrance in the 21st century. |
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 Kazimierz Albin was born in Cracow in 1922. Before the outbreak of the war in 1939, he completed his first four years at the Bartołomiej Nowodworski Secondary School No. 1. |
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 Executive Director of the United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum since 1999, she is also a founder of the National Institute for Holocaust Education and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. |
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Piotr M.A. Cywiński, Ph.D. |
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 Born April 16, 1972 in Warsaw. Doctor of humanities, medieval historian, graduate of Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, the Catholic University of Lublin, and the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Science.
Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim since 2006.
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Father Manfred Deselaers, Ph.D. |
 Manfred Deselaers. Born in Duesseldorf, Germany, on 19 May 1955, Manfred Deselaers is a Catholic priest from the diocese of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen). |
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 Dr Havi Dreyfus (Ben-Sasson) was born on 1972 in Jerusalem, Israel. She graduated with an undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, in psychology and history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (HUJI) and completed her Ph.D dissertation entitled “Poland and Poles in the eyes of Polish Jews during the Second World War (1939-1944)” at HUJI in 2005. |
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 Rabbi Irving Greenberg was born in 1933. Advocate of Christian-Jewish dialogue, a member of the International Auschwitz Council in the years 2000-2006. Head of the Council of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Signatory to the Dabru Emet declaration. In 2007, the Polish Council of Christians and Jews distinguished I. Greenberg with the title of the “Man of Reconciliation”.
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Israel Gutman was born in Warsaw in 1923. He belonged to the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB) during the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. |
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David Harris was born in 1949. Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee, one of the main representatives of the American Jewish environment in international forums.
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Christoph Heubner was born in 1949. He is the deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Committee. |
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 Roman Kent was born in 1929 in Łódź. He was a prisoner of Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and other concentration camps. The president of the International Auschwitz Committee. |
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Serge Klarsfeld was born in 1935. Historian, lawyer, vice president of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Shoah Memorial Foundation), chairman of Fils et Filles des Déportés Juifs de France (Association of Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France), member of the Council of the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, as well as a member of the Council of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. |
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Ronald Lauder was born in 1944. American businessman and philanthropist, Chairman of the World Jewish Congress and founder of the Lauder Foundation. For almost twenty years has regularly supported the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Site.
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Agnieszka Magdziak-Miszewska |
 Born February 28, 1957 in Warsaw, and a graduate of Warsaw University (Polish) and the Jagiellonian University (theater studies). |
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 Paweł Machcewicz was born in 1966. Historian, Prime Minister’s Plenipotentiary for the Museum of the Second World War. He lectures at the University of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. He is also on the Council of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.
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 Chairman of the Conseil représentatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF – Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France). |
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 Arsenij Rogiński was born in 1946. Historian, chairman of the "Memorial" Association, which examines communist crimes (including crimes against the Polish population). In the 1980s, he was sentenced in a political process to prison for attempting to conduct free scientific research. Awarded the Knight's Cross and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
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 Romani Rose was born in Heidelberg in 1946. He is the leading figure in the movement for Sinti and Roma civil rights. |
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 Grzegorz Ryś was born in 1964. Auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Krakow. Doctor habilitatus of humanities in the history of the Church, rector of the Higher Theological Seminary of the Kraków Archdiocese between 2007 and 2011. Member of the “Tygodnik Powszechny” editorial team.
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 Kalman Sultanik was born in Miechów in 1917. He studied at the university in Cracow, the Economics University in Tel Aviv, and Columbia University. Later, he graduated from LaSalle University Law School in Chicago. |
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 Marian Turski was born on June 26, 1926 in Druskienniki, in today’s Lithuania. |
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Henryk Wujec was born in 1941. Graduated from the Faculty of Physics University of Warsaw. Socio-political activist. Currently, advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland.
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 Journalist specializing in religious matters. On the staff of Tygodnik Powszechny since 2000 and head of its religion section since 2005. |
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