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CONTRIBUTORS Monika Adamczyk Garbowska is Professor of American and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Jewish Studies Centre at Maria Curie-Sklodowska niversity in Lublin, Poland. She is a translator from English and Yiddish and has held visiting fellowships at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Columbia University and Brandeis University. Her principal publications include Isaac Bashevis Singer's Poland: Exile and Return [in Polish] (1994) and (together with Antony Polonsky) Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: An Anthology (2001). She is on the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. Guy B. Adams is Professor and Associate Director in the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is co-editor-in-chief of the American Review of Public Administration and co-author of Unmasking Administrative Evil (Sage Publications, 1998), which won the 1998 Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration (USA), and the 1998 Best Book Award from the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management (USA). He has published over fifty books, book chapters and scholarly articles in leading national public administration journals. Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs is head of the Sociology and Ethnography Section at the Research Center on Jewish History and Culture in Poland at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and co-chair of the contact group `Education for Tolerance' of the Advisory Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief of the OSCE. She was a Pew Fellow at the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University (1996) and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in New York (1997). Involved in numerous educational projects that focus on social, ethnic, and religious prejudices, she has given lectures and workshops for students, teachers and journalists; her publications include an Action Guide to Developing Teaching for Tolerance Programs in Central Europe. Yitshak Arad was born in the town of Swieciany near Vilna in 1926. During the war he escaped from the ghetto and joined the Jewish underground. Although only a youth, he was an active member of a partisan group that fought in the forests of Belorussia until the liberation. His parents and family however died in the Holocaust. At the end of the war in 1945 he reached Eretz Israel as an illegal immigrant. He volunteered for duty in the under- ground Palmah and subsequently served in the Israeli Defence Forces in various positions of command, attaining the rank of Brigadier General. After leaving the army in 1972 he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yad Vashem, the Israeli National authority of commemoration of the Holocaust. Yitshak Arad studied at the University of Tel Aviv from which he was awarded his doctorate in history. He served as Chairman of Yad Vashem in the years 1972±99 and is currently Deputy Chairman of the International Council of Yad Vashem. His books include: Ghetto in Flames: The Struggle and Destruction of the Jews in Vilna; Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka: Operation Reinhard Death Camp; A Pictorial History of the Holocaust; The Partisan; The Destruction of the Soviet Jews under Nazi German Occupation, 1941±1944; and Documents on the Holocaust, co-edited with Gutman and Margaliot. He has just completed a 1000-page manuscript on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, to be published in the Yad Vashem series on the history of the Holocaust (in Hebrew). [ 871 ] 872 Contributors Professor Shlomo Aronson teaches Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among his various works on the Holocaust is a standard work on the early history of Gestapo and SD, and a major study entitled The Quadruple Trap ± Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews. Elizabeth R. Baer is a Professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota where she holds the Raymond and Florence Sponberg Distinguished Chair of Ethics. She is the co-editor, with Hester Baer, of the first English edition of The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in RavensbruÈck Concentration Camp for Women, a memoir written by Nanda Herber- mann, published in 2000 by Wayne State University Press. She is also the editor of Shadows on My Heart: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Buck of Virginia, 1861±1865 (University of Georgia, 1997). Her current project is a volume of essays, co-edited with Myrna Goldenberg, entitled Experience and Expression: Women and the Holocaust. Dr. Baer was the recipient of a Fulbright Award in the summer of 2000 to study the history of Jews in Germany. She has also published on children's literature about the Holocaust, and has presented at conferences on pedagogical approaches to teaching the Holocaust, including the use of service-learning in Holocaust courses. Working with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, she helped co-ordinate a conference entitled `Depart- ures: New Feminist Perspectives on the Holocaust' at the University of Minnesota in spring 2001. Frank Bajohr is a historian at the Forschungsstelle fuÈr Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg and lecturer at the Department of History at Hamburg University. In 2000/2001 he was a fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem. His publications include `Arisierung' in Hamburg. Die VerdraÈngung der juÈdischen Unternehmer 1933±1945 (English edition in 2001) and ParvenuÈs und Profiteure. Korruption in der NS-Zeit. Susan Bakewell-Sachs, Ph.D., RN, is currently Acting Dean and Associate Professor at the School of Nursing, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ. She is nationally recognized in the U.S. for her clinical expertise with prematurely born infants and her research on discharge management and long-term outcomes, and has presented and written extensively in this area. Her clinical background with these vulnerable infants includes ethical decision making with regard to nursing care decisions. Over the past four years, Dr. Bakewell-Sachs has also developed a research focus on the experiences of trained nurses in the Holocaust, specifically Jewish nurses, and is currently collecting oral histories on Jewish nurses who survived the Holocaust. Danny L. Balfour is the director of and an associate professor in the School of Public and Nonprofit Administration at Grand Valley State University. He is co-author of Unmasking Administrative Evil (Sage Publications, 1998) and winner of the 1998 Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration, and the 1998 Best Book Award from the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management. In 1999 he was named a Distinguished Faculty Member by the Michigan Association of Governing Boards of Uni- versities. He has published more than 20 scholarly articles and book chapters. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of organizational theory and behaviour, social policy, administrative ethics, and the Holocaust. He received his Ph.D. in public administration from the Florida State University. Lea Balint, born in Poland, was hidden during the Holocaust as a little child in a Polish monastery. In 1950 she came to Israel with her father, an Auschwitz survivor. She studied history and literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was a teacher at the High School and directed the Volunteer Center in Jerusalem. In 1991 she launched the project of Contributors 873 children with lost identity. Since then she has been engaged in further research while trying to help the people concerned, in Israel and elsewhere. In 1994 she established in the Ghetto Fighters Museum in Israel a Department of Children with Lost Identity, which she has continued to direct. Genadzi Barkun is Director of the Belarussian Museum of History of the Great Patriotic War and Member of the Former Belarussian Partisans' Committee. He is also a Member of the Coordinating Council of the Berlin Karlhorst Museum (Germany). His major publica- tions include Honorary Citizens of Belarus (1988), Museum's Guidebook (1978). He was a member of the Editorial Board of Belarussische Ostarbeiter (1998) and Geiseln der Wehrmacht (1999). He was awarded the medal for Valiant Labour (1980), Honorary Award of the Culture Ministry of Belarus and Honorary Diploma of the Council of Ministers of Belarus (1999). Neima Barzel is a senior lecturer and head of the department for Graduate Studies at OranimSchool of Education, Haifa University and an associate researcher in the Holocaust Research Centre of Haifa University, and is involved both in research and education. Her most recent publications are: State in Founding ± An integrated study book for teachers and university students and Sacrified Unredeemed, a comprehensive rstudy that deals with the encounter between the leaders of the Ghetto Fighters and Israeli society. She also conducts historical study programmes in Holocaust education and acts as a historical adviser for TV documentaries Yehuda Bauer is Professor of Holocaust Studies (Emeritus) at the Hebrew University, where he still teaches. He retired from his position as Director of the Holocaust Studies Center at Yad Vashem in the summer of 2000, and now serves as Senior Academic Adviser to Yad Vashem. He is a Member of the Israeli Academy of Science, and recipient of the Israel Prize (1998). He has been Visiting Professor at a number of US Universities (Honolulu; Yale; Stockton College, New Jersey; Clark University). He is the Academic Adviser of the Inter- national Task Force for Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research. He was the founding Director of Hebrew University's Vidal Sassoon Center for Studies on Antisemitism, and the founding editor of the Journal for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Michael J. Bazyler is a professor of international law at Whittier Law School, in Costa Mesa, California, and a Research Fellow with the London-based Holocaust Educational Trust. His specialty is human rights law, and he has representedhuman rights victims in various lawsuits filed in the United States.