Dr. Rebecca Erbelding has been a historian, curator, and archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for the past 18 years and served as the lead historian on the Museum’s special exhibition, Americans and the Holocaust. She holds a Ph.D. in American history from George Mason University. Her first book, Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe (Doubleday, 2018), won the National Jewish Book Award for excellence in writing based on archival research.