Joanna Urbanek
curator
Brussels
Biography
Historian and psychologist, interested in the social and political history of the 20th century. Curator at the House of European History in Brussels, since 2016 involved in the development of the museum project. Before, she worked in the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk (2011-2016). Lead curator of the exhibition Fake for Real. A History of Forgery and Falsification (Brussels, 2020-2022). Author of 'Everyday Life in the Shadow of Terror. German Occupation in Poland 1939-1945' (Gdańsk 2015) and 'Lęk i strach. Warszawiacy wobec zagrożeń Września 1939 r.' [Fear and Anxiety: Civilian Population of Warsaw in September 1939] (Warsaw 2009). Member of the Memory Studies Association and the Polish Oral History Association.
Organisation
House Of European History
bEU Institutions
The House of European History aims to become the leading museum about transnational phenomena which have shaped our continent. By interpreting history from a European perspective, it connects and compares shared experiences and their diverse interpretations. It aims to initiate learning on transnational perspectives across Europe. The House of European History is a forum for learning, reflection and debate, open to audiences from all generations and backgrounds. Our primary mission is to enhance understanding of European history in all its complexity, to encourage the exchange of ideas and to question assumptions.The House presents Europe's history in a way that raises awareness about the multiplicity of perspectives and interpretations. It preserves shared and dividing memories. It exhibits and collects the history of European integration and its foundations. A project of the European Parliament and part of its visitor offer, the House of European History is academically independent.
Ruben Vis
Director-gen.
Amsterdam
Biography
Ruben Vis is the Gen. Director of NIK - Organization of Jewish Communities in the Netherlands. He's ftequently consulted on all matters concerning religious rights.
Organisation
NIK
cEuropean Jewish organisation
NIK is the organization of Jewish communities in the Netherlands, based in Amsterdam and proudly serves the Jewish community of the Netherlands on matters of Jewish religious life and Jewish identity.
Nikolaus von Peter
Policy officer
Berlin
Biography
Nikolaus von Peter is a European Union official working at the European Commission Representation in Berlin where he deals with Antisemitism and Jewish life, next to other fundamental rights issues. Before moving to Berlin, Nikolaus worked in the private office of the European Commissioner for mobility and transport and in other positions at the European Commission and in the German government. Recently, he gained practical experience with remembrance work when, together with video artist Bert Zander, he created a Shoah monument for the Commission’s premises in Berlin, which reminds visitors and Commission staff of the Shoah and of how fundamental it is for the European Union. Nikolaus is a lawyer by training and holds a German law degree from the University of Heidelberg, a maitrîse en droit from the University of Paris and a master of laws from the University of Cambridge.
Organisation
European Commission
bEU Institutions
The European Commission is an institution of the European Union and host of the civil society forum.