Members of the Council

Journalist specialising in religious and social issues. Secretary of the International Auschwitz Council since 2006.

President of the American Academy in Berlin. Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and advisory boards of several NGOs.

Former director of the Jewish Historical Institute, member of the advisory board of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, member of the International Advisory Council for the new main exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

Co-founder of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, former Director General.

Historian, lawyer, Vice-President of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah), President of Fils et Filles des Déportés Juifs de France (Association of Sons and Daughters of Jews Deported from France), Member of the Council of the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

Head of the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Wall Paintings at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, member of the Council of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.

Secretary general of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism. Since May 2001, she has headed the General Compensation Fund for Victims of National Socialism and, since 2010, the Fund for the Renovation of Jewish Cemeteries in Austria. She participated in the negotiations on compensation under the Joint Declaration signed in Washington in January 2001. Member of the International Auschwitz Council.

Historian, professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, lecturer at Collegium Civitas. Former director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk. Member of the International Auschwitz Council since 2012.

Former co-chairman and now vice-chairman of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews, editor-in-chief of the magazine Więź, co-founder and chairman of the Social Committee for the Commemoration of the Jews of Otwock and Karczew.

Minister of Education in Helmut Kohl's cabinet from 1994 to 1998, Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2005 to 2010.

Deputy Chairman of Citibank New York for 23 years, former Chairman of Raiffeisen Centrobank in Warsaw, Chairman of BPH Bank for 10 years. Former Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BGŻ BNP Paribas, and since 2021 Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BGŻ BNP Paribas.

A Polish lawyer and US-licensed attorney practicing in the state of Michigan. Former partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges in New York. Advised on the establishment of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. Currently member of the board of directors of the American Friends of POLIN Museum Foundation in New York and chairman of the board of directors of the Ronald McDonald Foundation in Poland. Resident of Warsaw, Poland, and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.