Organisation

The Foundation Board decides on the statutes, the budget and staffing plan, the rules of procedure and the remuneration regulations of the Foundation as well as on the appointment of the Managing Director. It may reserve the right to decide on other matters. The Foundation Board monitors the management. After examining the annual accounts, it decides on the discharge of the management.

The members of the Foundation Board are

• Chairwoman of the Foundation Board: Lower Saxony Minister for Culture and Education Julia Willie Hamburg (Deputy: State Secretary Marco Hartrich)
• Hanna Naber, MdL (SPD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament) (Deputy: Brian Baatzsch, MdL)
• Christoph Bratmann, MdL (SPD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament) (Deputy: Veronika Bode, MdL (CDU parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament))
• Barbara Otte-Kinast, MdL (CDU parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament) (Deputy: Jens Nacke, MdL)
• Lena Nzume, MdL (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament) (Deputy: Eva Viehoff, MdL)
• Dr. Tanja Köhler (Wolfenbüttel Correctional Facility (JVA) / Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice) (Deputy: MR Christine Meyer)
• MR Dr. Ulrich Haselhoff (Ministry of Finance of Lower Saxony) (Deputy: N.N.)
• Dr. Britta Bopf (Secretary at the Federal Commission for Culture and the Media) (Deputy: Hanna Liever)
• Michael Fürst (Lower Saxony Federation of Jewish Communities) (Deputy: Marina Jalowaja, Vice President of the Lower Saxony Federation of Jewish Communities)
• Prof. Menachem Z. Rosensaft, World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations (USA), Chairman of the Foundation’s Advisory Board, (Deputy: Michael Gander, Association of Memorials and Remembrance Initiatives in Lower Saxony, Deputy Chairman of the Foundation’s Advisory Board)

Representatives of the Foundation Advisory Board attend the meetings of the Foundation Board in an advisory capacity:

• Prof. Dr. Janine Marx-Moyse, for the survivors' organisations
• Dr. Dietmar Sedlaczek (Association of Memorials and Remembrance Initiatives in Lower Saxony)
• Dr. Christel Trouvé (Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation, France)

The management is appointed by the Foundation Board. The current Managing Director is Dr. Elke Gryglewski.

The Foundation Advisory Board advises the Foundation Board on all technical issues relating to memorial work and research. It is made up of representatives of various survivors' associations as well as social organisations, associations and foundations.

The members of the Foundation Advisory Board are:

• Prof Menachem Z. Rosensaft, World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations (USA); Chairman (Deputy Chairman: Gloria Golan)
• Dr. Michael Gander, Association of Memorials and Remembrance Initiatives in Lower Saxony; Deputy Chairman (Deputy: Hedwig Thelen)
• Martine Letterie, Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme (AIN) (Deputy Chairman: Christine Eckel)
• Prof. Dr. Janine Marx-Moyse, Amicale des Anciens Déportés de Bergen-Belsen (France) (Deputy: Dr. Dominique Trimbur)
• Dr. Zsuzsa Misur, Hungarian Association of Former Bergen-Belsen Prisoners (Deputy: Tibor Feig)
• Arie Olewski, Irgun Sh'erit Hapleta (Israel), (Deputy: Ricki Ze'evi)
• Dr. Aviva Tal, Representative of people born in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp (Deputy: Debbie Morag)
• Dr. Christel Trouvé, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation (France)
• Leszek Wieciech, Polish Association of Former Bergen-Belsen Prisoners
• Prof. Dr. Felix Bernard, Lower Saxony Catholic Office (Deputy: Oliver Böhmer)
• Dr. Michael Borchard, Konrad Adenauer Foundation
• Claudia Dettmar-Müller, Bergen town council (Deputy: Michael Buhr)
• Dr. Sandra Donner, Wolfenbüttel city council (Deputy: Markus Gröchtemeier)
• Mario Franz, Lower Saxony Association of German Sinti and Roma
• Rainer Hoffschildt, Association for Research into the History of Homosexual Life in Lower Saxony (VEHN) (Deputy: Thomas Wilde)
• Marina Jalowaia, Lower Saxony Federation of Jewish Communities (Deputy: Michael Grünberg)
• Stephan Meuser, Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Deputy: Linda Matzke)
• OLKR Dorothea Otte, Federation of Lutheran Churches in Lower Saxony (Deputy: OLKR Felix Paul)
• Michael Quelle, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Lower Saxony (Deputy: Victor Perli)
• Heiner Scholing, Life and Environment Foundation / Heinrich Böll Foundation Lower Saxony (Deputy: Anke Egblomassé)
• Dr. Dietmar Sedlaczek, Association of Memorials and Remembrance Initiatives in Lower Saxony (Deputy: Andreas Ehresmann)
• Sarah Vogel, Bergen-Belsen project group in the Lower Saxony Youth Association (Deputy:  N.N.)
• Peter Wanninger, Bergen-Belsen Working Group Association (Deputy: Elke von Meding)
• N.N., German Sinti and Roma Cultural Centre (Deputy: N.N.)
• N.N., Friedrich Naumann Foundation (Deputy: Sylvia Bruns)

The work of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial is supported by an International Advisory Board, which is made up of national and international experts and representatives of other memorial sites and educational institutions.

The commission consists of:

• Prof. Dr. Michele Barricelli, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
• Dr. Karola Fings, Antiziganism Research Centre, Department of History, University of Heidelberg
• Prof. Dr. Pieter Lagrou, Free University of Brussels
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bertrand Perz, University of Vienna
• Prof. Dr. Peter Romijn, Institute for Research on War, Holocaust and Genocide (NIOD), Amsterdam
• Prof. Dr. Miriam Rürup, Moses Mendelsohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies, University of Potsdam
• Prof. Dr. Jan Rydel, University of Education, Krakow
• Prof. Dr. Waltraud Schreiber, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• Dr. Natalia Timofeewa, Regional Centre for Oral History of the Voronezh Institute of High Technology
• Prof. Dr. Moshe Zimmermann, former Director of the Richard Koebner Centre for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Dr. Stephanie Bohra, Documentation Centre Topography of Terror, Berlin
• Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Hebrew University Jerusalem

The work of the Wolfenbüttel Correctional Facility (JVA) is accompanied and supported by a Scientific Advisory Board made up of national and international experts as well as representatives of other memorial sites and educational institutions.

• Dr. Daniel Baranowski, Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation, Berlin
• PD Dr. Imanuel Baumann, Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds
• Dr. Claudia Fröhlich, Martin Niemöller House, Berlin-Dahlem
• Dr. Andreas Grünewald-Steiger, Federal Academy for Cultural Education Wolfenbüttel
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Henne, Marburg School of Archives - University of Archival Studies
• Dr. Michael Löffelsender, Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation
• Prof. Dr. Peter Romijn, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Research Amsterdam
• Dr. Birgit Sack, Münchner Platz Memorial Dresden
• Dr. Harald Schmid, Schleswig-Holstein Memorials Community Foundation
• Dr. Christel Trouvé, Memorial Bunker Valentin, Bremen
• Aya Zarfati, House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Educational Centre, Berlin

In carrying out its tasks in the field of memorial site promotion, the Foundation is advised by the Scientific Commission for the Promotion and Further Development of Memorial Work in Lower Saxony.

The members of the commission are

• PD Dr. Lu Seegers (chairwoman), Schaumburger Landschaft
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• Prof. Dr. Michele Barricelli, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
• Dr. Gudrun Fiedler, retired archive director, State Archive of Lower Saxony - State Archive Stade
• Prof. Dr. Viola Georgi, University of Hildesheim
• Prof. Dr. Dirk Lange, Leibniz University of Hanover
• Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass, University of Osnabrück
• Prof. Dr. Dietmar von Reeken, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
• Associate Prof. Dr. Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann, Leibniz University of Hanover
• Prof. Dr. Oliver von Wrochem, Hamburg Memorials Foundation