Helise E. Lieberman is the Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Life & Learning Foundation. A former Hillel director, she was the founding principal of the Lauder Morasha Day School in Warsaw and has served as a consultant to the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Baltic region, the Westbury Group, and the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. In June 2015, she was awarded the prestigious Bene Merito Medal by the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Lieberman was born in the U.S., holds dual citizenship, and has lived in Warsaw since 1994.

Paweł Łukaszewicz, Senior Program Manager, joined the Taube Center’s team in June 2014 and since has been coordinating various educational and publishing projects. Pawel was born and raised in Warsaw and studied at Law & Administration and Spatial Planning faculties of the University of Warsaw. His main interests include history, architecture, and urban studies, with a special focus put on his hometown Warsaw, its past, present, and future. Since 2007 he has been an active member of the NGO Forum Rozwoju Warszawy (Warsaw’s Development Forum), which gathers people interested in keeping the city’s history alive, sustaining its traditions, and fostering Warsaw’s current and future sustainable development. In addition to these topics, Paweł is also interested in Lviv (former Polish city of Lwow) and the region of Eastern Galicia.

Her role involves managing public-facing services; planning and designing temporary exhibitions; coordinating CoopCulture activities for Jewish heritage museums; training the staff of the Jewish Museums in Piedmont and Sicily; supervising the management of the Jewish Museum of Florence and the synagogues in Florence and Siena; and collaborating on the creation of the Jewish Heritage Museum of Padua.

Baruch Lampronti has worked for years with the Foundation for Jewish Cultural Heritage in Italy. He participates in research and promotional projects on the historic and artistic heritage of Jewish communities in Italy. He has curated and contributed to several exhibitions, and has written articles and essays. Baruch holds a degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Turin. He is active in Jewish institutional and community life in Italy, especially in Piedmont, where he resides.

Annie Sacerdoti is a journalist and author of the first “Guide to Jewish Italy”, as well as a series of regional Italian Jewish itineraries and Italian Jewish museum guides. A member of the AEPJ board since its inception, she was part of the team behind the first European Day of Jewish Culture. She is the Vice President of the Fondazione Beni Culturali Ebraici in Italia (FBCEI).

Trained as a high school teacher of history and Spanish, Anke Biedenkapp decided to pursue a career beyond school: She worked as a study tour guide in Spain as well as Malta and Cuba. Later, she founded an innovative city tour company in Hanover, which she managed for twenty years. In parallel, she organized the Reisepavillon, a globally unique sustainability forum that sent important impulses into the tourism industry for two decades. Since 2011, she has been the head of the Global Partnership Hannover association and is responsible under this umbrella for projects on education for sustainable development and on the topic of remembrance culture. She is also involved in various civil society organizations on a voluntary basis.

Nesi Kupreishvili is the Project Manager at the Israeli House NET, aiming to use public diplomacy (Hasbara) to take care of the image of Israel and achieve solidarity; She Graduated Social and Political Sciences at Tbilisi State University and then followed with an MBA degree. Formerly a Delegate and a Head of President Administration at Tbilisi State University Self-Government. Since, her career has been focused on effectively managing various projects in construction and development, as well as dealing with investments and sales in hospitality and tourism industries at one of the leading organizations in Georgia.

Is a French specialist in communication. She was, for more than two decades, the press officer of the Mayor of Strasbourg and President of the Alsace Region, and managed the public image of the Strasbourg Metropole. In 2006, she founded her own agency, WPR Public Relations, and she acts as a consultant to communities, businesses and associations.

From 2015 onward, she worked with United States Holocaust Memorial Washington to promote the French version of the exhibition “The Power of Nazi Propaganda” at UNESCO Paris and the Paris City Hall (Hôtel de Ville). In 2017, she organised the presentation of the exhibition in Strasbourg,  in cooperation with city staff and the Council of Europe.

Since 2017, she has been the General Secretary of the European “Route of Judaism on the Rhineland” association.