HOLOCAUST - Key Persons

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• Member of the New North London Synagogue Management Board
• Senior Leader

Abi is an experienced senior leader working at board level, with a strong operational and management track record in the corporate and voluntary sector. For over 20 years, she has added value by bringing business and charities together - facilitating business support for charities often challenged by unclear business models and complicated governance. Abi is a member of the New North London Synagogue Management Board and Council and also sits as a trustee for the charity Sweet Charity (London) Ltd. Her interests include family & friends, urban architecture, Holocaust education, European cinema, cycling, trekking and garden design.

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• Professor of Contemporary German History at Nottingham Trent University, Englan

Bill Niven is Professor of Contemporary German History at Nottingham Trent University, England. He has published widely on Germany's efforts to come to terms with its National Socialist past. Among his publications are the monographs Facing the Nazi Past (Routledge, 2000) and The Buchenwald Child (Camden House, 2007). Professor Niven has also edited many volumes of essays on Germany's relationship to its Nazi past, chief among these being Germans as Victims (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and - with Chloe Paver - Memorialisation in Germany since 1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). In addition to researching the legacies of Nazism, Professor Niven has spent many years studying the culture and literature of East Germany, and recently published a monograph on Representations of Flight and Expulsion in East German Prose Works (Camden House, 2014). Currently, he is writing a book on Hitler and the Nazi Film Industry (Yale, 2017). At Nottingham Trent, Bill Niven supervises a number of MA and PhD students who are working on subjects connected to the work of the National Holocaust Centre and Museum, such as the memory and history of the Kindertransport, the use of testimony, and the teaching of the Holocaust at primary school level. Professor Niven was historical adviser to the recent AHRC-funded exhibition Germany's Confrontation with the Holocaust in a Global Context, created by the University of Leeds. This exhibition was shown at the National Holocaust Centre in early 2015.

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• Director of the Stanley Burton Centre
• Director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Alexander Korb is Director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Leicester. His research centers on European conflict history with a focus on political and social implications of mass violence, as well as 20th century intellectual history of Germany and its connections to Europe and the wider world. Korb worked on popular reactions to the Nazi persecution of the Jews in pre-war Germany, the system of concentration camps, and mass violence on the Balkans. His prize-winning book "In the Shadow of World War Two" deals with the genocidal Ustaša-regime in wartime Croatia and is forthcoming with Oxford University press in an English edition. In his current research project he examines how formerly fascist German intellectuals turned into democrats after 1945, and what they thought about Europe, political participation and their own involvement across the regimes. Before coming to the UK, Alex Korb worked in several Holocaust-related museums (e.g. the Wannsee Memorial and the Sachsenhausen Memorial Site). This sparked his interest in the different modes of representing the Holocaust in museums across Europe.

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• Associate Professor of History Education

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• Chairman of the National Holocaust Centre

Gary Mills is Chair of the National Holocaust Centre and Museum's Academic Advisory Board and Associate Professor of History Education at the University of Nottingham, England. Gary's main research interests centre around the teaching of sensitive and controversial issues in history with a particular interest in the teaching of the Holocaust and other genocides. He has worked in Rwanda with the Kigali Institute of Education exploring how beginning history teachers teach about the 1994 Genocide and through this teaching promote better community cohesion. He also works with the University of Connecticut and runs a postgraduate exchange programme where there is a key focus on teaching difficult and challenging histories. His publications include history textbooks and web-based resources used in schools as well as edited works on teaching history - Teaching Sensitive and Controversial Issues in History (2005) and Changing Times and Time for Change? Perspectives on History Education within and across national boundaries with C. van Boxtel and A. Mcully (2007). His most recent project has been looking at the use of international films about the Holocaust and the pedagogical issues and opportunities that these films present in secondary school classrooms. His main teaching at the University of Nottingham is on history ITE postgraduate courses and he also supervises MA and PhD students working in the areas of Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights education.

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• Trustee
• Life President

James co-founded The National Holocaust Centre and Museum in 1995 with his parents and brother Stephen. He initiated the East Midlands Kosovo Appeal in 1995 and worked with the International Medical Corps in Albania as a volunteer physician. He co-founded the Aegis Trust in 2000, and with the UK Foreign Office in 2002 staged the first major international conference on genocide prevention. In 2004 he established the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda's capital, at a site where 250,000 victims of the 1994 genocide lie buried. It receives tens of thousands of visitors each year, world leaders among them. James visited Darfur in 2004 and was the first NGO head to call for its referral to the International Criminal Court. He is an author, editor and contributor to multiple films and publications on the Holocaust and genocide. In 2013 he was awarded the CBE for his distinguished and innovative contribution to Holocaust education and genocide prevention.

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• Member of the Academic Advisory Board
• Reader in Education / University of the West of Scotland

Doctor Paula Cowan is a Reader in Education at the University of the West of Scotland, a UK delegate on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, a member of the Holocaust Memorial Day (Scotland) Steering Group, and a founding trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Paula is Director of Vision Schools Scotland, an accreditation programme that was launched in 2017 to promote excellence in Holocaust teaching in schools in Scotland. Paula's previous work with museums include assisting the National Holocaust Centre with Our Lonely Journey (1999), writing the teaching resource, The Holocaust Drawing Pack, (2001) for the Museum's Education Service Glasgow, and working with Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, on testimony from Holocaust survivor Marianne Grant (2002). Paula's research is mainly focused on school based Citizenship and Holocaust education. Paula has written several Holocaust teaching resources for primary and secondary teachers. Her co-edited book, Teaching Controversial Issues in the Classroom, (Continuum, 2012) includes several chapters on teaching the Holocaust. Paula is co-author of Understanding and Teaching Holocaust Education which examines and discusses current thinking of Holocaust education in primary and secondary schools (Sage, 2017), and co-editor of Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). In 2015 Paula was awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award for her work in Holocaust education from the Children's Identity and Citizenship Europe Association (CiCeA).

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• Dean of the School of Computing and Digital Technologies
• Professor

Professor Minhua Eunice Ma is the Dean of School of Computing and Digital Technologies and a Professor of Computer Games Technology at Staffordshire University. She is also a Governor and Trustee of Wakefield College in West Yorkshire. Professor Ma is a world-leading academic developing the emerging field of serious games. She has published widely in the fields of serious games for education, medicine and healthcare, Virtual and Augmented Reality and Natural Language Processing, in 120 peer-reviewed publications, including 11 books on serious games with Springer. Eunice has received grants from RCUK, EU, NHS, NESTA, UK government, charities and a variety of other sources for her research on serious games for stroke rehabilitation, cystic fibrosis, autism, medical education, cultural heritage, Holocaust education and preventing gender-based violence.

Job Titles:

• Chairman of the Board
• Trustee
• Chairman of the National Holocaust Centre and Museum
• KC Trustee Board Chair
• Lead Trustee for Strategy and CEO

Henry became Chair of the National Holocaust Centre and Museum in September 2012. He was one of the founders and first chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council, stepping down in 2009 at the completion of office as President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (2003 -2009). Current positions include President of World Jewish Relief, Chair of Shechita UK, Vice-Chair of National Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, Vice-President, Council for Christians and Jews. Educated at University College London, where he was made a fellow in 2006, he was called to the bar in 1972 specialising in criminal law. He took Silk in 1999 and became a Bencher of Gray's Inn in 2001. He was awarded the OBE in 2009 for services to the Jewish community and interfaith relations.

Laura grew up in London where she began work as a commercial solicitor, first at Magic Circle law firm Allen & Overy, and then for media companies including United International Pictures and Paramount Home Entertainment. She later spent 9 years in Dublin and New York, where she worked for charities and community service projects, including Holocaust Memorial Day in Dublin and Mitzvah Day in New York. Since 2013, she has worked as a lay leader in several roles in London, including as Advisory Board member of PJ Library UK. Currently she is Chair of UK Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro, and a Development Board member of North London Collegiate School. She is an active member of South Hampstead Synagogue. Since first visiting the National Holocaust Centre and Museum in 2015, she has arranged several synagogue group family visits. She lives in London with her husband and 3 children.

Job Titles:

• Trustee