Speakers & Panelists

Isabel Alcoff
Author and Volunteer, 2G

Danny Bahar
KTA 3G
Economist and Migration Scholar

Dr. Rita Benn
Psychologist, 2G
Co-editor and Contributing Author

Dr. Ira Brenner
Psychiatrist, 2G

Sharon Buenos
Global Director, 3G
Zikaron BaSalon, Israel

Alexa Chronister
Healthcare Attorney, 4G

Barbara Cohen
Survivor

Sophie Don
Executive Director, 3G
Philadelphia Holocaust Memorial

Dori Eskstein
Holocaust Educator, 2G
Author and Contributing- Editor, Toronto

Dr. Irit Felsen
Psychologist, 2G

Esther Toporek Finder
President and Founder, 2G
Generations of the Shoah, Nevada
Dr. Pamela Finder
3G

Dr. Jenni Frumer
Chief Strategy Officer
Holocaust Learning Experience

Bernie Fuhrspan
Vice Chair, 2G
Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County

Jadwiga Galazka
Survivor

Dr. Alfred Garwood MBE
Psychiatrist, Child Survivor

Rose Gelbart
Survivor

Erika Gold
Survivor

Alek Golubchick
Sophomore, 4G
UPenn

Simone Gorko
Psychologist, 2G

Rachel Greenberg
Program Director, 3G
ADL East

Irene Gruber
Advocate, 2G
Dorot Hahemshech Executive Committee Member

Willie Handler
Author and Public Speaker, 2G

Annette Insdorf
Professor, Film and Media
Columbia University, 2G

Henry Israeli
Director of Jewish Studies, 2G
Drexel U.

Toni Kalem
KTA 2G
Actress, Screenwriter, Director

Danny Kalman
Kindertransport 2G
Association of Jewish Refugees, UK

Dr. Robert Krell
Psychiatrist, Child Survivor

Maya Leyzarovich
Senior, 4G
UPenn

Max Arpels Lezer
Child Survivor
President, WFJHS&D

Eric Lichtblau
Journalist and Author

Manfred Lindenbaum
Kindertransport Survivor

Emily Loeb
Director of Pittsburgh Holocaust Center, 3G

Frieda Mahler Seidner
Survivor

Michael Mantell
Child and Family Psychotherapist, Educator,
Community Advocate, 3G

Kristin Marcell
Pennsylvania State Representative

Talia Mastai
Associate Managing Director, 3G
Vancouver Holocaust Education Center

Miriam Mattova
International Model, Political Scientist, 3G

Dr. Joanna Michlic
Holocaust Historian and Author, 2G

Jane Pashman
Director of Holocaust Education, 3G
Suffolk Y JCC, 3GNY Long Island Regional Coordinator

Jenny Rappaport
Head Genealogist
Center for Jewish History, NYC

Jude Richter
Research and Reference Specialist
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Bari Rogoff
CEO, Living Links, 3G

Sylvia Ryback-Sklar
Assistant Professor, Ret., 2G
Department of Education, McGill University

Dr. Jonathan Sarna
Professor of American Jewish History

Katrin Schultheiss
Historian, 2G

Dan Schwarz
Psychologist, 2G

Samantha Seligman-Grajewski
Founder, 3G
Engineering Remembrance

Dr. Charles Silow
Psychologist, 2G
EVP, WFJHS&D

Marilyn Sinclair
Founder, 2G
Liberation 75

Jared Solomon
Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Amy Spitalnick
CEO, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, 3G

Meghan Stevenson-Krausz
3G
Advocate for Inclusive Investing & Storytelling

Dr. Serafima Velkovich
Head of the Family Roots Research Section
Yad Vashem Archives

Ben Waxman
Pennsylvania House of Representatives