Team
Rosemarie Reed
Director
Rosemarie Reed is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Some of the films are: Conversations with Gorbachev, with Stephen F. Cohen; Widow of the Revolution: The Anna Larina Story, narrated by Vanessa Redgrave; Where Birds Never Sang: The Ravensbrueck Concentration Camp; The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, narrated by Academy Award winner, Linda Hunt; Out from the Shadows: The Story of Irene Joliot Curie, narrated by Julianne Moore; Playing in the FM Band; and her latest film, Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing. Her latest film project, Gisella Perl: I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz, is in the development phase.
Reed’s films have received support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The National Science Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, The Irene Diamond Foundation, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Her films have been seen on PBS, RAI in Italy, the History Channel, Arte/ZDF in France and Germany, American Public Broadcasting, and other national and international networks.In addition, Stanford University owns Ms. Reed’s entire film collection. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds two films in their collection, and her films can be found in hundreds of colleges and universities around the world.
Dina Potacki
Editor
Dina Potocki has an impressive track record & wide-ranging experience editing documentaries. With a strong sense of story and a gifted eye, she has worked on both independent films and television documentaries, including projects for PBS, ABC, A&E, The History Channel, Bravo, National Geographic, and Discovery. Dina’s noteworthy credits, among many, include Making the 9/11 Memorial, The World Was Ours, Where Birds Never Sing, Out of the Shadows: The Story of Irene Joliot-Curie & Frederic Joliot, The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner & Otto Hahn, Pablo Picasso: A Primitive Soul, Generation Rx, Breaking the Silence, Hot to Trot, Playing in the FM band: The Steve Post Story, Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing, No One Cares About Crazy People.
Dr. Jason Adam Wasserman
Advisor
Dr. Jason Adam Wasserman is Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Foundational Medical Studies at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, where he also holds an appointment in Pediatrics, directs the Medical Humanities and Clinical Bioethics curriculum, and serves as the Founding Director of the Center for Moral Values in Health and Medicine, the Director of the Holocaust and Medicine program, and as a clinical ethics consultant at Corewell Health – East. Dr. Wasserman currently chairs the board of HOPE Adult Shelter and he recently served as Provost Fellow for Faculty Diversity at Oakland University and an Inaugural Fellow in Bioethics and the Holocaust at the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation and the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics, and the Holocaust. His first book, At Home on the Street (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2010) addressed the issue of homelessness, while his current scholarly work focuses on clinical bioethics and medicine and the Holocaust. The second edition of his book Social and Behavioral Science for Health Professionals was published in 2020 by Rowman and Littlefield. Each year he leads a trip with twenty medical students to Auschwitz to study medical ethics, resistance, and moral courage. He has authored numerous articles in journals such as Social Science and Medicine, American Journal of Bioethics, Hastings Center Report, Bioethics, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Pediatrics, JAMA-Pediatrics, and The New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel
Advisor
Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel is the founding executive director of New York-based Remember the Women Institute, which since 1997 has conducted research and activities that include women in Holocaust history. She authored The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp and other Holocaust-related books, and edited Fiorello’s Sister: Gemma La Guardia Gluck’s Story. She is co-editor of Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust, VIOLATED! Women in Holocaust and Genocide, and Women, Theater, and the Holocaust Resource Handbook. She has written numerous book chapters and articles on the Holocaust, curated exhibitions, consulted on films, and lectured internationally for decades. Her PhD in Political Science is from The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, and she was a research fellow at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, and the Center for the Study of Women and Gender, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Rachel E. Gross
Advisor
Rachel E. Gross is an award-winning science journalist who writes about medical history, gender bias and marginalized voices in medicine for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and others. She is the author of Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage,” a New York Times Editors’ Pick and finalist for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award in Literary Science Writing. She profiled Dr. Gisella Perl for the BBC’s series “Missed Genius” in 2020, and later spoke on a panel discussion about Dr. Perl and reproductive ethics during the Holocaust for the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Previously, she was a 2018-19 Knight Science Journalism Fellow and the digital science editor of Smithsonian magazine. She has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health.
Giora Ytzhsk Yardeni
Grandson
Giora Ytzhsk Yardeni, is the grandson of Dr. Gisella Perl. Mr. Yardeni’s work experience us in high-tech industries, project industries, and naval command, with a distinguished career in the Israeli Navy. He received his education at the Israel Institute of Technology, where he received Bachelor of Science in Physics; University of Haifa, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science; and The College of Management, Marketing and Sales Management. He retired from the Israei Navy with the rank of Captain. He served from 1969 to 2023, 1969-1993 full service and 1993-2023 active reserve service. For many years Giora has worked diligently to keep his grandmother’s legacy alive.
