Ronald Wagmann,is owner and CEO at Travel to Live, where he engages the tourism industry and market with an experiential approach, promoting cultural and heritage tourism, as well as customized travel events. He was born in Timisoara, Romania, has a degree in Computer Science and uses his 15 years of IT business management experience in this entrepreneurial project. Being on the board of the local Jewish community and regional representative of the Romania-Israel Chamber of Commerce gives him better exposure to address Jewish heritage.

Born in Israel to survivor parents from Sighet (Maramureș) and Bucharest, Romania, Peninah served the Toronto Jewish Community for over 40 years, as a principal at Jewish schools, Holocaust Museum Director, and president of the Adath Israel Synagogue Sisterhood.

Peninah is the Founder and CEO of Fundatia Tarbut Sighet – Cultura si Educatie in Iudaica (FTS), established in 2014. FTS has been an active member of AEPJ for the past five years, offering the yearly European Days of Jewish Culture to Romanians in the Maramureș area and beyond; as well as offering Jewish Routes in the Maramureș and Bukovina regions.

Emil Majuk is a project manager and a cultural heritage interpretation expert and graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and Political Sciences at Warsaw University. Since 2005, he has maintained a professional relationship with the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theater” Centre in Lublin.

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.

Akvilė works as a project manager and content creator for cultural and educational projects carried out by Jewish Heritage Lithuania. She coordinates the events of Jewish Cultural Days in Lithuania organized by the members of JHL. Akvilė comes from an academic background: she is a lecturer and researcher at the Vilnius University Faculty of History, where she focuses her research on the problematic aspects of representation of the history and culture of ethnic minorities in Eastern and Central Europe.

Aivaras Poška works as a content creator and project manager in Jewish Heritage Lithuania. He is responsible for communication on social media. Besides his work in Jewish Heritage Lithuania, Aivaras is currently preparing his Ph.D. thesis, which focuses on the Jews social and economic position in the towns of Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the 15th-17th centuries.

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.