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Michael Berenbaum is an American scholar, professor, rabbi, writer and filmmaker who specializes in the study of the Holocaust. He served as the Deputy Director of the President»s Commission on the Holocaust (1979-1980), the Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum–USHMM–between1988 and 1993, and as Director of the USHMM»s Holocaust Research Institute (1993-1997). From 1997 to 1999, he served as the president and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and currently serves as the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute, Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust, located at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, California. He is the author of over 18 books including the best selling "The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum" (2006). He has co=produced and served as an adviser on several documentary films including "One Survivor Remembers: The Gerda Weissman Klein Story"  which won an Academy Award, an Emmy Award and the History Channel»s "The Holocaust: The Untold History."