Council Member Alvin Rosenfeld Named to the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council

Washington, D.C. July 10, 2002 - The National Polish American - Jewish American Council (NPAJAC) congratulates Dr. Alvin H. Rosenfeld of Indiana University for being named by President George W. Bush to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.

A graduate of Brown University with a doctoral degree in English, Dr. Rosenfeld is an English professor and director of the Borns Jewish Studies program at Indiana University in Bloomington. He has written two books on the Holocaust and translated a third, and he serves on the editorial boards of two scholarly journals on the Holocaust. He also has edited several other publications that deal with the Holocaust.

A frequent writer on German-Jewish and Polish Jewish relations, he published last year an essay on the Jedwabne debate and commemoration ceremonies, as part of a delegation representing the Council at Jedwabne. Rosenfeld has been affiliated with the U.S. Holocaust Council as a special adviser to the chairman and a member of the Education Committee.

Dr. Rosenfeld joins NPAJAC honorary co-chairmen, Fr. John Pawlikowski and Ambassador John Kordek as members of the Holocaust Museum Council. Ambassador Kordek serves on the Holocaust Council's executive committee.

In addition to Dr. Rosenfeld, President Bush named Ms. Aldona Wos of North Carolina to serve the remainder of the late Council co-chairman Professor Stanislaus Blejwas.

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For more information, please contact Guy Billauer at 202-785-4200 or mail@npajac.org