Invited by the EUROM, Michael Berenbaum gave a keynote speech at the University of Barcelona on the occasion of the world première of the exhibition Auschwitz, which opened on December 01 at the Arte Canal Exhibition Centre in Madrid.
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Expert in studies of the Holocaust, Berenbaum served as Deputy Director of President Jimmy Carter’s Commission on the Holocaust (1979–1980), Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1988–1993), and Director of the USHMM’s Holocaust Research Institute (1993–1997). From 1997 to 1999 he was the President and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, created by Steven Spielberg. He is currently the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust and of the Berenbaum Group.
