Biographies of Contributors

Jean Ancel is an independent historian affiliated with the Yad Vashem. He was editor of Documents Concerning the Fate of Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust (1986), 12 vols.; Wilhelm Filderman's Memoirs and Diaries (2004); and many other works; author of The History of the Holocaust: Romania (2002), 2 vols.; Transnistria 1941–1943: The Romanian Mass Murder Campaigns (2003), 3 vols.; Prelude to Murder: The Pogrom in Jassy, June 29,1941 (2003); and co-editor of Pinkas Hakehilot, Rumania (Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania); and Yad Vashem Studies 2 (1980).

Moshe Arens is the former Minister of Defense and of Foreign Affairs, State of Israel. He is the author of Broken Covenant: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis between the U.S. and Israel (1995), and writes a bi-weekly column for the Israeli daily Haaretz.

Rainer Schulze teaches modern European history at the University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom, where he is Head of the Department of History. Since 2000, he has been one of the project leaders of the international team of researchers that is preparing the new permanent exhibition at the Gedenkstštte Bergen-Belsen, and of the management group for the new exhibition. Dr. Schulze is currently preparing a monograph the working title of which is ìThe British and Bergen-Belsen, 1940–1950.î

Alan E. Steinweis teaches modern European history and the history of the Holocaust at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany (1993) and the forthcoming Studying the Jews: Scholarly Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. He is the co-editor of The Impact of Nazism (2003) and Coping with the Nazi Past (2005), and is editor of the Comprehensive History of the Holocaust series published by the University of Nebraska Press for Yad Vashem.