Accomplishments

  • Resistance: They Fought Back

    Executive Producer and Interviewee • 2022

  • Deborah's Hope (Project Witness)

    Historian and Interviewee • 2022

  • Reckoning

    Narrorator and Interviewee • 2022

  • Dara of Jasenovac

    Executive Producer
    Serbian entry for Academy Award, Best Foreign Language Picture • 2020

  • Документальный проект «Нюрнбергский процесс. Без права на помилование» | Интер [The Nuremberg Process: No Right to Pardon]

    Interviewee
    Russian Television • 2020

  • The “Holocaust” Arrives in German

    Interviewee
    German National TV • 2019

  • 1944 Should We Bomb Auschwitz

    Interviewee
    BBC • 2019

  • We Shall Not Die Now

    Senior Historian, Executive Producer and Interviewee • 2019

  • The Call to Remember: The David Schaechter Story

    Producer
    Regional Emmy Award Winner, PBS • 2019

  • Operation Finale

    Consultant • 2018

  • Antisemitism

    Interviewee • 2017

  • Hidden

    Interviewee and Historical Consultant • 2017

  • The Zookeepers Wife

    Historical Consultant • 2017

  • Daring to Rescue

    Interviewee and Historical Consultant
    August • 2016

  • Annihilation: The Destruction of the European Jews, an eight-part series by Smithsonian

    Interviewee and Consultant • 2016

  • Not A23029

    Interviewer, Narrator and Historical Consultant • 2016

  • Anne Frank’s Holocaust

    Interviewee and Historical Consultant
    National Geographic • 2015

  • One Day in the Life of Auschwitz: The Kitty Hart-Moxon Story

    Interviewee
    Discovery Channel • 2015

  • Treblinka’s Last Witness

    Executive Producer and Interviewee
    WLRN and PBS • 2014

  • The Soap Myth

    Historical Consultant and Interviewee
    National Jewish Theater Foundation/Holocaust Theater Archive Project • 2014

  • In One Split Second: The Holocaust in Hungary

    Historical Consultant and Interviewee
    Project Witness • 2014

  • Sammy: The Journey

    Historical Consultant and Interviewee • 2014

  • Engineering Evil

    Historical Consultant and Interviewee
    The History Channel • 2011

  • Empty Boxcars: The Rescue of Bulgarian Jewry

    Historical Consultant and Interviewee • 2010

  • Teenage Witness: The Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Story

    Historical Consultant and interviewee
    PBS • 2010

  • Masters of Death

    Historical Consultant and Interviewee
    National Geographic, • 2009

  • Scrapbook from Hell: The Auschwitz Album

    Consultant and Interviewee
    National Geographic • 2009

  • Blessed Be the Match: The Hanah Szenes Story

    Consultant and Interviewee • 2008

  • Defiance

    Consultant
    Paramount • 2008

  • Swimming in Auschwitz

    Executive Producer
    PBS • 2009

  • Antisemitism

    Consultant
    PBS • 2006

  • About Face

    Consultant
    PBS • 2005

  • Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust,

    Historical Consultant
    AMC Network, BBC • 2005

  • Faith and Tolerance

    Consultant • 2004

  • Desperate Hours

    Executive Producer, Writer and Historian
    PBS • 2004

  • Reinhold Heydrich, The Face of Evil

    Historical Consultant and Interviewee • 2003

  • A Yiddish World Remembered

    Historical Consultant
    PBS, Emmy Award Winner • 2002

  • Resistance

    Executive Producer, Writer and Chief Historian
    Warner Brothers • 2001

  • Uprising

    Chief Historical Consultant
    NBC • 2001

  • Conspiracy

    Chief Historical Consultant
    HBO Films, Nominated for 10 Emmys • 2001

  • Holocaust: The Untold Story

    Chief Historical Consultant
    Newseum Productions and the History Channel • 2001

  • Diplomats of the Damned

    Historical Consultant
    The History Channel and Roos Productions • 2000

  • The Last Days

    Chief Historical Consultant
    Academy Award Winner • 1998

  • One Survivor Remembers

    Co-producer
    HBO, Academy Award Winner for Best Short Documentary, Cable Ace Award and Emmy Award • 1995

  • Holocaust: The Survivors Gather in Washington

    Co-writer
    PBS • 1984

THE WORLD MUST KNOW: THE STORY OF THE HOLOCAUST AS TOLD IN THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM

  • The World Must Know depicts the evolution of the Holocaust comprehensively, as it is presented in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.D., honors the six-million Jews and millions of other victims of the Nazis during World War II―a memorial to the past and a living reminder of the moral obligations of societies and individuals. The World Must Know documents the compelling human stories of the Holocaust as told in the Museum's renowned Permanent Exhibition. This second edition is based on the substantive increase in knowledge of the Holocaust over the past dozen years and information from archives that had been inaccessible to researchers until after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the communist regimes of Easten and Central Europe.

    This revised edition is enhanced with new insights and updates based on archival information that had been inaccessible to researchers until after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Communist regimes of Eastern and Central Europe. It includes new photographs, redrawn charts, a new section on the Holocaust in Greece, an updated bibliography, and a new foreword by the museum director.

    "The World Must Know by Michael Berenbaum is a skillfully organized and clearly told account of the German Holocaust that consumed, with unparalleled malevolence, six million Jews and millions of innocent others―Protestants, Catholics, Poles, Russians, Gypsies, the handicapped, and so many others, adults and children. This important book, a vital guide through the unique corridors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., merits the widest of audiences." ―Chaim Potok, author of The Chosen and The Promise

    Published on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Encyclopedia Judaica

  • The Encyclopaedia Judaica is a 22-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people, Judaism, and Israel. It covers diverse areas of the Jewish world and civilization, including Jewish history of all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings. As of 2010, it had been published in two editions accompanied by a few revisions.

    The English-language Judaica was also published on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM version has been enhanced by at least 100,000 hyperlinks and several other features, including videos, slide shows, maps, music and Hebrew pronunciations. While the CD-ROM version is still available, the publisher has discontinued it.[1]

    The encyclopedia was written by Israeli, American and European professional subject specialists.

Murder most merciful: essays on the conundrum occasioned by sigi Ziering’s the judgement of herbert bierhoff

  • Murder Most Merciful is a collection of insightful essays that consider Sigi Ziering's play, The Judgment of Herbert Bierhoff. In the play, Ziering tells the story of a loving father and his decision during the Holocaust to take the life of his beloved daughter to avoid her deportation. Scholars who have thought long and hard about the ethical implications of the Holocaust continue to grapple with the poignant questions Ziering raised.

    Commentary from the book's diverse contributors, including Holocaust survivors, scholars, rabbis, philosophers, and historians, results in an insightful and provocative moral and theological exchange. Murder Most Merciful will stimulate further debate on the crucial issues of martyrdom, euthanasia, and the guilt of the innocent. Ultimately, the judgment of Herbert Bierhoff is for the reader to make. The book appears in the Studies in the Shoah series as volume 28.

Published: January 6, 2006

Published: January 6, 2006

After the passion is gone

  • Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ topped box office charts and changed the American religious conversation. The controversies it raised remain unsettled. In After The Passion Is Gone: American Religious Consequences, leading scholars of religion and theology ask what Gibson's film and the resulting controversy reveal about Christians, Jews, and the possibilities of interreligious dialogue in the United States. Landres and Berenbaum's collection moves beyond questions of whether or not the film was faithful to the gospels, too violent, or antisemitic and explores why the debate focused on these issues but not others. The public discussion of The Passion shed light on a wide range of American attitudes―evangelical Protestant, mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish―about media and faith, politics and history, Jesus and Judaism, fundamentalism and victimhood. After The Passion Is Gone takes a unique view of vital points in Christian-Jewish relations and contemporary American religion.

Published: November 15, 2004

A Promise to remember

  • A chronicle of the Holocaust based on the personal accounts of survivors ranges from the rise of the Nazis to the death camps and final liberation, accompanied by removable documents and a spoken-word audio CD.

Murder most merciful: essays on the conundrum occasioned by sigi Ziering’s the judgement of herbert bierhoff

  • Murder Most Merciful is a collection of insightful essays that consider Sigi Ziering's play, The Judgment of Herbert Bierhoff. In the play, Ziering tells the story of a loving father and his decision during the Holocaust to take the life of his beloved daughter to avoid her deportation. Scholars who have thought long and hard about the ethical implications of the Holocaust continue to grapple with the poignant questions Ziering raised.

    Commentary from the book's diverse contributors, including Holocaust survivors, scholars, rabbis, philosophers, and historians, results in an insightful and provocative moral and theological exchange. Murder Most Merciful will stimulate further debate on the crucial issues of martyrdom, euthanasia, and the guilt of the innocent. Ultimately, the judgment of Herbert Bierhoff is for the reader to make. The book appears in the Studies in the Shoah series as volume 28.

Published: January 6, 2006

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