The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust announced the appointments of three board of trustee members: Jane Oster Sinisi, Edward Rabinowitz and Stacey A. Saiontz. As the 25th anniversary of the Museum approaches, these grandchildren of Holocaust survivors will help lead the Museum into its next quarter century, the museum said.
Sinisi is the granddaughter of four Holocaust survivors. She has been producing documentary and feature films for the last decade and has produced or executive produced films, including “A Call For Help,” “Eden,” and, in 2016, “The Birth of a Nation,” a Sundance Film Festival hit which sold to Fox Searchlight Pictures for $17.5 million.
Rabinowitz is the grandson and great grandson of Holocaust survivors. He was a featured speaker at the Museum’s 2019 Generation to Generation Dinner and has been connected with the Museum since June 2019, when he attendee the Young Friends Sunset Soiree. He has continued to remain active with the Museum since, through both philanthropy and event participation.
Saiontz is a lawyer whose grandparents survived the Holocaust. Their stories of survival have profoundly influenced her outlook and inspired her commitment to sharing all stories and lessons of the Holocaust with future generations. She has served as a founding member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (USHMM) New York Next Generation Board and sits on the USHMM Museum’s Education Committee. She has been heavily involved with the Museum of Jewish Heritage and has served as associates division co-chair alongside Seth Weisleder.
“My personal mission is to ensure that my grandparent’s stories, the stories of all of the survivors and the lessons of the Holocaust are passed on from generation to generation,” Saiontz said. “Our Museum teaches the universal messages of tolerance, the importance of taking action and the perils of indifference and inaction. As a trustee, I will help ensure that we never forget.”
