Rebecca Erbelding has been a historian, archivist, and curator at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum for the past twenty years. She holds a Ph.D. in American history from George Mason University and is the author of Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe (2018), which won the National Jewish Book Award for Writing Based on Archival Material. She served as a historical advisor and an on-camera expert in Florentine Films’ The U.S. and the Holocaust, directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein.