Honorary Advisory Board
Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstadt, is a partner at Washington, D.C. law firm, Covington & Burling heading the firm’s international practice, and is senior strategist at APCO Worldwide. He has held key senior positions in three US administrations, including chief White House domestic policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981); U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration (1993-2001). He was also named Special Representative of the President and Secretary of State on Holocaust-Era Issues under the Clinton Administration, successfully negotiating major agreements with Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France and other European countries, covering restitution of property, payment for slave and forced laborers, recovery of looted art, bank accounts, and payment of insurance policies. He served as the United States Ambassador to the European Union from 1993 to 1996.
https://www.cov.com/en/professionals/e/stuart-eizenstat
Professor George D. Schwab, was born in Latvia in 1931, interned in the Liepaja ghetto and is a survivor of the Kaiserwald and Stutthof concentration camps. He began his teaching career at Columbia University and became a professor at the City College of New York (The City College and Graduate Center); in 1974, Schwab cofounded the National Committee on American Foreign Policy--an American non-partisan foreign policy think tank, serving as president of the committee from 1993-2015. IN 1984, he contributed a chapter titled “A Decade of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy” to a volume titled Power and Policy in Transition: Essays Presented on the tenth Anniversary of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in Honor of its Founder, Hans J. Morgenthau. In 1998, he was presented with the Ellis Island Medal of Honor; in 2001, an endowment was established in his honor at the Committee that supports four foreign policy lectures annually; in 2002, the President of Latvia invested Schwab with The Order of the Three Stars, the country’s highest honor; in 2018, he was presented the Elie Wiesel Award by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
https://www.ncafp.org/about-us/leadership/george-d-schwab/
Margers Vestermanis, Latvian Holocaust survivor, Historian Founder and former Director and Founder of the museum “Jews in Latvia.” Was interned in the Riga Ghetto and Kaiserwald concentration camp.
Advisory Board
Mag. Dr. Gerhard Baumgartner, Scientific Director of the Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance (DÖW).
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Baumgartner
Professor Erika Doss, Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters.
https://americanstudies.nd.edu/faculty/erika-doss/
Professor Ruvin Ferber, Department of Physics at University of Latvia; and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia
http://www.lza.lv/scientists/ferber.htm
Eva Fogelman, Ph.D. is a social psychologist and psychotherapist, a writer and a filmmaker, and advisor to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Professor Marianne Hirsch, is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/mh2349/
Professor Suzanne Lacey, is an American artist, educator, and writer, professor at the USC Roski School of Art and Design of the University of Southern California.
http://www.suzannelacy.com/6fm0mcxzi94uhkf0brrrhcqdxmxzgk
Mag. a Hannah M. Lessing, Secretary General, National Fund of the Republic of Austria and General Settlement Fund for victims of National Socialism Fund for the Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria.
https://www.nationalfonds.org/person-en/hannah-m-lessing
Dr. Frank Mecklenberg, Director of Research and Chief Archivist at Leo Baeck Institute, a research library and archive that documents the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry, primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries, but also including documents dating back to the middle ages.
https://old.lbi.org/about/staff-directory/dr-frank-mecklenburg/
Professor Harriet F. Senie, Director, Art History, Art Museum Studies Program. Professor of Art History The City College, CUNY, and also teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Partnerships
Museum “Jews in Latvia”, https://www.jewishmuseum.lv
National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, https://www.nationalfonds.org/home
Advisors
Ilya Lensky, Director of “Jews in Latvia” Museum in Riga, LV
Ilya Lensky has graduated History and Philosophy Department of University of Latvia, specializing in Modern and Contemporary History. Since 2006 he works at the Museum "Jews in Latvia", director from 2008. His field of interest includes Latvia's Jewish history with emphasis on Enlightment, modernization of Jewish community, Jewish-Latvian relations, as well as issues of Holocaust commemoration.
Mitchell Lieber, Producer-director of the forthcoming documentary, Rumbula's Echo, about the Holocaust in Latvia.
Mitchell Lieber is producer-director of the forthcoming documentary, Rumbula's Echo, about the Holocaust in Latvia. Early work-in-progress screenings received critical acclaim and the film's complete rough cut (draft) is being finished in 2019. The documentary is based on thousands of hours of archival research as well as 100 hours of original footage.
Lieber has made three documentary shorts related to the Holocaust in Latvia. Prior, in 2002, he created the Rumbula.org web portal which grew to 140 native pages.
Mitchell Lieber has spoken and presented Rumbula’s Echo work-in-progress at numerous conferences such as Jews in A Changing World, the IAJGS International Jewish Genealogy Conference, the Deutsch-Baltische Gessellschaft’s Rumbula Conference in Germany and New Directions in Holocaust Research in Latvia, organized by the University of Latvia and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Lieber's early career was in radio, spanning 10 years at Chicago's WNIB (now WDRV) where he served as public affairs director, producing and hosting, Chicago, a program of interviews and documentaries. His earlier show was This Is A Test, which critic Ray Townley described as “the most culturally satisfying program on the air" in Chicago. Lieber began as a news stringer for Chicago’s WGLD-FM (now WVAZ). He served as treasurer and a board member of the public radio organization, the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB). For 25 years he was an officer and board member of Chicago Classroom TV.
Mitchell Lieber has had a simultaneous career in business as the award-winning leader of the consulting firm, Lieber & Associates. He has served as president of the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing (CADM) and chair of the ANA International ECHO Awards. For nine years he taught in the Integrated Marketing Certificate Program at DePaul University and is a contributing author to three books.
