In
film, his work as Co-Producer of One Survivor
Remembers: The Gerda Weissman Klein Story was
recognized with an Academy Award, an Emmy Award and
the Cable Ace Award. He was the historical consultant
on The Shoah Foundation’s Documentary, The Last
Days that won an Academy Award for the best
feature-length documentary of 1998.
Over the past several years, Berenbaum was a
historical consultant or chief historical consultant
for:
•
HBO’s Conspiracy, recently nominated for 10
Emmy awards,
•
NBC’s Uprising
•
The History Channel’s The Holocaust: The Untold
Story, which won the CINE Golden Eagle
Award and a Silver Medal at the US International Film
and
Video Festival.
•
About Face,
a film on German Jewish refugees who fought for the
Allies against Nazi Germany during World
War II liberated its camps, interrogated its war prisoners, and served as
officials during the Allied occupation
of Germany.
He
was the executive producer, writer, and historian for
a film entitled Desperate Hours on the
Holocaust in Turkey, which was broadcast on Public
Television in the fall and is a consultant and
interviewee on several broadcasts, most recently,
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust,
which was broadcast on the BBC in England and on AMC
in the United States and of Swimming in Auschwitz,
the story of six women survivors of Auschwitz and the
way they coped as inmates and as women with their
incarceration.
For his work in journalism, he won the Simon
Rockower Memorial Award of the American Jewish Press
Association three times in three different categories
during a two-year period. He has been featured on
Nightline and the Today Show as well as
National Public Television.
Berenbaum takes special pleasure in his work as a
teacher. His course at Georgetown was named by the
student newspaper as one of the ten most important
courses in the University. Among his former students
was the famed American entertainer, Pearl Bailey, who
wrote of Berenbaum: "The wisdom I gained from his
class is priceless. He is young, aggressive, tough,
wise as some sages of yore, and as brilliant as a
diamond. When class ended, you felt filled, drained,
and filled again." (Pearl Bailey, Between You and
Me)
Berenbaum is a graduate of Queens College (BA, 1967)
and Florida State University (Ph.D., 1975), and also
attended The Hebrew University, the Jewish Theological
Seminary and Boston University. He has won numerous
fellowships including the Danforth Fellowship, the
George Wise Fellowship at Tel Aviv University, and the
Charles E. Merrill Fellowship at FSU. Berenbaum was an
elected fellow of the Society for Values in Higher
Education. He was given a Doctor of Divinity (honoris
causa) from Nazareth College in 1995 and a Doctor
of Humane Letters (honoris causa) from Denison
University
He is married to Melissa Patack Berenbaum, who is the
Vice-President and General Manager of the Motion
Picture Association of America, California Group. He
is the father of four children: Ilana, a Brown
University honors graduate, who was ordained as a
Rabbi by the University of Judaism in May 2001 and is
now Rabbi of Temple Beth Shalom in Long Beach,
California; Lev, who graduated from Georgetown
University and is a Washington-based businessman;
Joshua, born in December 1998; and Mira, born in May,
2000 and the grandfather of Jeremy Grinblat, born in
February 2004.
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