Helene J. Sinnreich

Helene Julia Sinnreich (born 1975) is Director of the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies at Youngstown State University.[1] She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jewish Identities.[2] She is Executive Director of the Ohio Council for Holocaust Education and served as a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007.[3] Dr. Sinnreich was a fellow at Yad Vashem in 2009.

Sinnreich received her Ph.D. in comparative history from Brandeis University in 2004.[1] Her areas of specialization are Holocaust history, Polish-Jewish history, and Nazi ghettoization policy. Her research focuses on the Łódź and Kraków ghettos. Sinnreich also researches rape and the Holocaust.[4]

Personal Life
Sinnreich is the daughter of Karen and Simon Sinnreich of Tampa, FL and was married on October 10, 2010 to Wesley Johnson Jr.[5] Dr. Sinnreich is mother to Nathan Maxwell Johnson born October 11, 2011.[6] Nathan was photographed in a widely distributed photograph with President Barack Obama on July 6, 2012.[7] The photograph has subsequently been made into a mural in Houston.

References

  1. 1 2 "Judaic and Holocaust Studies - Youngstown State University". Retrieved 2008-12-15.
  2. ↑ "Journal of Jewish Identities - Editorial Board". Archived from the original on 2007-02-17. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
  3. ↑ "The Visiting Scholars Program | Fellows". Retrieved 2008-12-15.
  4. ↑ ‘And it was something we didn’t talk about’: Rape of Jewish Women during the Holocaust' in Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History (14.2). See http://www.vmbooksuk.com/acatalog/Journal_of_Holocaust_Studies.html
  5. ↑ http://www.vindy.com/news/2010/sep/24/miss-sinnreich-mr-johnson-to-wed-oct-10/
  6. ↑ http://www.templeelemeth.org/Library/.../November_Bulletin_2011.pdf
  7. ↑ http://www.democraticunderground.com/101739147
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