Composition of the International Treblinka Council
• Sara Bloomfield—director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum since 1999. She is a co-founder of the National Holocaust Institute and the Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Member of the International Auschwitz Council in its II, III and IV terms.
• Prof. Havi Dreifuss—head of the Institute for the History of Polish Jews and Israeli-Polish Relations at Tel Aviv University. She is also the Director of the Polish Centre for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem. Her research addresses many facets of life during the Holocaust, including survival under extermination, anti-Semitism, religious life, Jewish-Polish relations, and the broader responses to the Holocaust.
• Prof. Barbara Engelking—heads the Centre for Holocaust Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences. She chaired the International Auschwitz Council during its III term (2014-2018). She has dedicated over 30 years to Holocaust studies, authoring several important books and numerous articles in both Polish and international journals.
• Ronald Lauder—President of the World Jewish Congress. Member of the International Auschwitz Council in its III and IV terms and Chairperson of the Board of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation. His support made it possible to set up professional conservation workshops at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Site. He is also a Member of the Council of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
• Erica Lehrer, PhD—social and cultural anthropologist as well as an exhibition curator. She is
a professor at the Department of History and Sociology-Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, where she held the Research Chair in Museum and Canadian Heritage Studies from 2007 to 2017.
• Aldona Machnowska-Góra—a cultural manager and the deputy mayor of Warsaw, tasked with overseeing matters related to monument protection.
• Katarzyna Person Wooddin, PhD—historian and the director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. She has led the Research Department of the Jewish Historical Institute and worked on the comprehensive edition of the Ringelblum Archive. An author of five books and numerous articles discussing Holocaust history and its aftermath.
• Michael Schudrich—became the Chief Rabbi of Warsaw and Łódź in 2000, later being appointed Chief Rabbi of Poland in 2004. He is a member of the Rabbinical Council of America, the Conference of European Rabbis, and the Rabbinate of the Republic of Poland.
• Prof. Roma Sendyka—affiliated with the Department of Anthropology of Literature and Cultural Studies at Jagiellonian University. As a co-founder of the Centre for Memory Cultures, she explores literary and cultural theories, with a focus on visual culture and memory.
• David Silberklang, PhD—historian at Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research. He serves on the editorial board of *Yad Vashem Studies* and is the editor of the Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project series. He is the chief historian for the museum development project, having created the historical concept for the Museum of the History of the Holocaust.
• Stanisław Stankiewicz—the President of the Central Council of Roma in Poland, the President of the Parliament of the International Romani Union, and an IRU representative at the UN. He was a member of the International Auschwitz Council during its first term.
• Adam Struzik—the Marshal of the Mazovia Province since December 2001.
• Michał Trębacz, PhD—director of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute. He is
a member of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Since 2017, he has led the Research Department at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
• Ada Willenberg—the widow and curator of the legacy of Samuel Willenberg, who was
a sculptor, painter, and a prisoner at the Treblinka extermination camp. Fugitive from the Warsaw Ghetto. A member of the International Auschwitz Council during its IV term. Educator of Israeli youth groups visiting the site of the former Treblinka extermination camp.
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