David Marwell

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David G. Marwell (* 1951 ) is an American historian and the current director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York . He received his PhD in recent and recent history from the State University of New York at Binghamton .

Prior to joining the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC , Marwell was director of the Document Center in Berlin from 1988 to 1994 and then executive director of the JFK Assassination Records Review Board.

He also served as Chief of Investigative Research in the United States Department of Justice's Office of Special Investigations . In this position, Marwell was responsible for conducting historical and forensic research in support of the prosecution of National Socialist war criminals , including Klaus Barbie and Josef Mengele . He has served as an expert witness and advisor to the governments of Canada and Australia in several war crimes trials . He was also a member of the Interagency Working Group for Nazi War Criminal Documents.

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  1. Stephen Kinzer : Berlin Journal; Torch Is Passed, and the Past Is in German Hands , April 1, 1994, in The New York Times (English)