Michael Berenbaum
b. 1945. Michael Berenbaum is a writer, lecturer, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and the historical development of films. He is also an [adjunct] Professor of Theology at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. In the past he has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Prior to that he was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. From 1988-93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, overseeing its creation. Berenbaum is the author and editor of twelve books, scores of scholarly articles and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent work is The Bombing of Auschwitz Should the Allies Have Attempted It? co-edited with Michael Neufeldd

Jolene Chu
b. 1957, studied social history at New York University, researcher specializing in the history of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Nazi era, at the international offices of the Watch Tower Society; project coordinator of Holocaust-related education programs and cooperative efforts with the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Facing History and Ourselves, the Imperial War Museum Holocaust Exhibition, and numerous other Holocaust education and research facilities; serves on the advisory board for the Journal of Genocide Research.

Christoph Daxelmüller
b. 1948, Professor for Folklore Studies at the University of Würzburg and project director "Culture in Nazi concentration camps: Culture as a survival strategy." Studies in folklore, cuneiform writing, and Semitic studies at Munich and Würzburg.

Hans-Hermann Dirksen
b. 1966, attorney, studied at Kiel University, and has specialized in criminal law since 1995. LLD at Law Faculty of Greifswald University 1999. Publications include: "Keine Gnade den Feinden unserer Republik" Die Verfolgung der Zeugen Jehovas in der SBZ/DDR 1945-1990 (Berlin, 2001). Research projects about the criminal prosecution of religious minorities in communist regimes.

Henry Friedlander
b. 1930, Professor of History in the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Deported 1941 from Berlin to Lodz ghetto and 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Neuegamme, Ravensbrück men's camp, emigrated to the United States in 1947. In addition to articles on the historiography of the Holocaust, Nazi concentration camps, and postwar war crimes trials, he is the author of The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (Chapel Hill, 1995). He is coeditor of 7 volumes of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual (New York, 1984-1990) and the 26 volume documentary series, Archives of the Holocaust (New York, 1990-1995).

Detlef Garbe
b. 1956, Head of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum in Hamburg since 1989. Numerous publications about the history of concentration camps, Jehovah's Witnesses, other forgotten victim groups, military justice, and postwar confrontations with the Nazi past. Editor of Beiträge zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung in Norddeutschland, and author of Zwischen Widerstand und Martyrium: Die Zeugen Jehovas im "Dritten Reich" (Munich, 1997).

Martin Guse
b. 1961, social worker and educator, employed in juvenile education and social work. Research focus is the history of the Moringen and Uckermark concentration camps. Author of the exhibition catalog, "Wir hatten noch gar nicht angefangen zu leben": zur Geschichte der Jugend-KZ Moringen und Uckermark 1940-1945 (Moringen and Liebenau, 1992 and 3d exp. ed. 1997), and the exhibition KZ Moringen 1933 und Frauen-KZ Moringen 1933 bis 1938 at the Moringen Memorial Museum.

Jürgen Harder
b. 1967, master's degree in history; studied history, German language and literature, and communication at Göttingen University. Staff member of the Göttingen History Workshop, with research specialty on Nazi persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Dietrich Hellmund
b. 1934, Protestant pastor in Hanover and Hamburg; 1971, Ph.D. in theology at Erlangen University with monograph about history of the Jehovah's Witnesses. From 1969-1998, member of the project "religious communities" in the United German Lutheran-Evangelical church (Vereinigte Evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche Deutschlands); contributor to handbook Religiöse Gemeinschaften; chairman and member of the commission on ideologies of the North Elbe Church directorate.

Hans Hesse
b. 1961, master's degree in history, freelance author; studied ancient history, contemporary history, and communications at the Free University Berlin. Author of Hoffnung ist ein ewiges Begräbnis: Edition des Briefwechsels von Hannah Vogt aus dem KZ Moringen 1933 (Bremen, 1998); research projects about the persecution of Sinti and Roma in Bremen and the Moringen concentration camp.

Kirsten John-Stucke
b. 1966, master's degree in history, is a researcher at the Wewelsburg District Museum. She studied contemporary history, German language and literature, and communications at Münster University; and interned at the Morgenstern Museum in Bremerhaven. Author of various articles and books on Wewelsburg concentration camp, prisoner biographies, and persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Nazi era.

Walter Köbe
b. 1943, since 1979 volunteer associate of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in Selters/Taunus; head of the Public Affairs Office for Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany.

Ursula Krause-Schmitt
b. 1942, historian, since 1975 responsible for archival and library development at the Studienkreis Deutscher Widerstand in Frankfurt. Publications include: co-author with Jutta von Freyberg of the exhibition catalog, Moringen - Lichtenburg - Ravensbrück: Frauen im Konzentrationslager 1933-1945 (Frankfurt, 1997); and co-author in the series Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweise zu den Stätten des Widerstandes und der Verfolgung 1933-1945.

Lutz Lemhöfer
b. 1948, studied Catholic theology, sociology, and political science; since 1991, specialist in ideological questions for the Catholic Bishopric Limburg. Publications include: Katholische Kirche und NS-Staat - aus der Vergangenheit lernen?, co-author with Monika Kringels-Kemen (Frankfurt, 1981); Die braune Machtergreifung: Universität Frankfurt 1930-1945, co-author with Christoph Dorner and others (Frankfurt, 1989); and Was gehen uns die Sekten an?, co-author with Kurt-Helmuth Eimuth (Frankfurt, 1998).

Sybil Milton
b. 1941, d. October 16, 2000, independent historian, since 1997 affiliated as Vice-President with the Independent Experts Commission: Switzerland - World War II. She served as Senior Historian of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum from 1988 to 1997 and Director of the Archives of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York from 1974 to 1984. Her books include the coedited volumes: The Holocaust: Ideology, Bureaucracy, and Genocide (New York, 1981); 7 volumes of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual (New York, 1984-1990) and the 26 volume documentary series, Archives of the Holocaust (New York, 1990-1995). She also co- authored Art of the Holocaust, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1982. She has published numerous articles about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, including about the use of photographic evidence as historical documentation; women and the Holocaust; the politics of postwar memorials; the fate of Sinti and Roma in Germany and occupied Europe between 1933 and 1945. Her most recent books are In Fitting Memory: The Art and Politics of Holocaust Memorials (Detroit, 1991) and guest co-editor of the special issue "Photography and the Holocaust" of the journal History of Photography (Winter 1999). She has also drafted the entry for "Jehovah's Witnesses" for the Walter Laqueur and Judith Baumel, eds., Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (New Haven, in press).

Angela Nerlich
b. 1966, member of research staff at the history archive of Jehovah's Witnesses, Selters/Taunus, Germany.

James N. Pellechia
b. 1944, studied journalism and communications at Columbia University; associate editor of the periodical Awake! (Erwachet!); author of The Spirit and the Sword-Jehovah's Witnesses Expose the Third Reich; producer of the video documentary Jehovah's Witnesses Stand Firm Against Nazi Assault.

Thomas Rahe
b. 1957, studied history and Catholic theology, Ph.D. 1987; since 1987, academic and research director of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial Museum. Numerous articles and publications about Jewish history, social history of the concentration camps, and most recently, the essay "Rabbiner im Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen," in Memora 9 (1998).

Hubert Roser
b. 1957, studied history, geography, and political science in Mannheim; Ph.D. 1996, dissertation "NS-Beamtenpolitik und regionale Verwaltung in Baden und Württemberg, 1933-1939." Since 1997, researcher at the University of Karlsruhe for the research project "Resistance against National Socialism in the German Southwest." Editor and contributor to Widerstand als Bekenntnis: Die Zeugen Jehovas und das NS-Regime in Baden und Württemberg (Konstanz, 1998).

Wolfram Slupina
b. 1947, since 1967 senior staff at the German headquarters of the Watch Tower Society in Wiesbaden, and after 1984 in Selters/Taunus; since January 1996, in charge of public affairs division for schools, education, and memorials.

Göran Westphal
b. 1966, doublemajored in German Studies and Protestant Theology at Schiller University Jena, Germany, and Nottingham University, Great Britain; 1996-97 on a scholarship at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, USA.

Johannes Wrobel
b. 1953, since 1979 researcher and author on the writing staff of the Watch Tower Society; head of the history archive of Jehovah's Witnesses, Selters/Taunus, Germany. Writing and research staff for the video documentary Jehovah's Witnesses Stand Firm Against Nazi Assault (1996); presentations in Austria, England, Germany, Russia, Sweden, and Israel on the Nazi and Communist persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Gabriele Yonan
b. 1944, Ph.D. in oriental studies and history of religion at the Free University, Berlin. Lecturer for oriental languages, literatures, and religions. Publications include Ein vergessener Holocaust: Die Vernichtung der christlichen Assyer in der Turkei (Göttingen, 1989), also translated into English and Turkish language editions.

Antje Zeiger
b. 1963, teacher's certificate; research staff member at the Sachsenhausen Memorial Museum and director of the satellite museum on Sachsenhausen "death marches." Her research focuses on death marches and liberation and Jehovah's Witnesses in Sachsenhausen.