The Board of Directors of Remembrance and Reconciliation
Dr. John J. Hartman,
is a Clinical Associate Professor of psychology in the Department of
Psychiatry at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He was
formerly Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in the
department of Psychiatry and Research Associate at the Center for
Russian and European Studies at the University of Michigan. Dr.
Hartman received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College summa
cum laude in Social Relations and his Ph.D. from the University of
Michigan. He is the Executive Director of Remembrance and
Reconciliation, Inc., a non-profit foundation dedicated to bettering
ethnic relations between the Jewish and Eastern European
communities. Dr. Hartman has taught an undergraduate course at U
of M on the psychology of ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe, an
outgrowth of his published work on group psychology, anti-Semitism, and
terrorism.
Henry S. Landau
Michael Szymanski
Michael Traison
Dr. Thaddeus C. Radzilowski
David R. Semmel
Henry S. Landau (Of Blessed Memory) was
a survivor of the Shoah from Western Poland. He came to the United
States after the war and became one of the leading residential builders
in Southeast Michigan. He died in 2003.
Honorary Board of Directors
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to President
Carter and now the Director of the Center for Strategic and
International Studies.
Dr. Nancy Blackmun, a psychoanalyst from Framingham, Massachusetts.
Father Leonard F. Chrobot, Professor of Sociology, Notre Dame
University and former Co-Chair, Jewish American Polish American Council.
Eva Hoffman, author of Shtetl and Lost in Translation.
Dr. Jan Karski, (Of Blessed Memory) Courier of the Polish underground
who first reported the death camps to the West. Former Professor of
International Studies, Georgetown University.
Dr. Jacek Krochmal, historian at the Polish National Archives in Warsaw
and author of two books on Jews in Poland.
Gershon Meister, native of Poland, Holocaust survivor, and President of
the Przemysl Landsmannschaften in the United States.
Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Rabbi for the Jewish community of Poland.