which also won an Academy Award in 1998. In 2001, Berenbaum was historical consultant for 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. He was also Executive Producer of a film entitled Desperate Hours about the unique and rarely acknowledged role The Republic of Turkey played in rescuing Jews from Nazi Germany's final solution and "About Face: The Story of The Jewish Refugee Soldiers of WWII." Berenbaum was executive producer of Swimming in Auschwitz and was a consultant for Defiance and Uprising, among other Holocaust-related films and documentaries. Berenbaum is the founding partner of Berenbaum Jacobs Associates, a firm that designs museums, special exhibitions, memorials and educational denters. In 2019 and 2020 he served as a history consultant for the Serbian historical drama film Dara of Jasenovac. Personal life Berenbaum's wife is Melissa Patack Berenbaum. Berenbaum is the father of four children: Rabbi Ilana Berenbaum Grinblat, Phillip Lev Berenbaum, Joshua Boaz Berenbaum, and Mira Leza Berenbaum. He is the model for the character Monty Pincus in Tova Reich’s 2007 satirical novel My Holocaust. References External links Bio of Michael Berenbaum Michael Berenbaum, AJU Directory Book reviews: A Convenient Hatred Holocaust history books Michael Berenbaum at American Jewish University Articles by Michael Berenbaum The Madness of Contemporary Times The Complexity of the Jewish Narrative in Our Times Op-eds by Michael Berenbaum Middle east 2010 Essays by Michael Berenbaum Judaic studies American encyclopedists American social sciences writers Queens College, City University of New York alumni Florida State University alumni Boston University alumni Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Jewish Theological Seminary of America alumni Yale University faculty Florida State University faculty Wesleyan University faculty Georgetown University faculty George Washington University faculty University of Maryland, College Park faculty American Jewish University faculty American documentary filmmakers American University faculty and staff Historians of the Holocaust Jewish American historians American male non-fiction writers 1945 births Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American Orthodox rabbis Historians from California