Helene J. Sinnreich

Who is Helene J. Sinnreich?

Helene Julia Sinnreich is Director of the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies at Youngstown State University. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jewish Identities. She is Executive Director of the Ohio Council for Holocaust Education and served as a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007. Dr. Sinnreich was a fellow at Yad Vashem in 2009.

Sinnreich received her Ph.D. in comparative history from Brandeis University in 2004. Her areas of specialization are Holocaust history, Polish-Jewish history, and Nazi ghettoization policy. Her research focuses on the Łódź and Kraków ghettos. Sinnreich also researches rape and the Holocaust.

Personal Life

Sinnreich is the daughter of Karen and Simon Sinnreich of Tampa, FL and was married on October 10, 2010 to Wesley Johnson Jr. Dr. Sinnreich is mother to Nathan Maxwell Johnson born October 11, 2011. Nathan was photographed in a widely distributed photograph with President Barack Obama on July 6, 2012. The photograph has subsequently been made into a mural in Houston.