David G. Marwell
{{Short description|American historian}}
David G. Marwell (born 1951) is an American historian and the former director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.{{Cite web|title = Director of Museum of Jewish Heritage to Step Down|url = http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/director-of-museum-of-jewish-heritage-to-step-down/|website = ArtsBeat|access-date = 2016-01-04}} Marwell served as Chief of Investigative research for the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations, where he conducted historical and forensic research into war criminals, including Josef Mengele and Klaus Barbie.
Education
Marwell received a BA from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. in modern European history from Binghamton University.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/arts/music/27babi.html?pagewanted=print|title=At Long Last, a Shostakovich Premiere |date=September 27, 2006|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=20 November 2009 | first=James | last=Barron}}
Career
Prior to his work at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. from 1997 to 2000, Marwell was director of the Berlin Document Center from 1988 to 1994{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/01/world/berlin-journal-torch-is-passed-and-the-past-is-in-german-hands.html|title=Berlin Journal; Torch Is Passed, and the Past Is in German Hands|date=1 April 1994|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=20 November 2009 | first=Stephen | last=Kinzer}} and then executive director of the Assassination Records Review Board.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/10/12/sen-byrd-lord-of-a-land-that-is-not-pc/4622be4c-d589-45e0-b67e-893447e8e28e/|title=Sen. Byrd: Lord of a Land That Is Not PC|date=12 October 1994|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=20 November 2009 | first=Al | last=Kamen}}
He also served as Chief of Investigative Research for the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations.{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna26505933|title=Israeli ex-agent: We allowed Nazi doc to escape|date=2 September 2008|work=NBC News|access-date=20 November 2009}} In that capacity, Marwell was responsible for conducting historical and forensic research in support of Justice Department prosecution of Nazi war criminals, including Klaus Barbie and Josef Mengele.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wOkKAAAAIBAJ&pg=6046,5898934&dq=david-marwell+courier&hl=en|title=Us Intelligence Paid Nazi For Information|date=7 February 1993|publisher=The Prescott Courier|access-date=20 November 2009}}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He has also served as an expert witness and consultant to the governments of Canada and Australia on several war crime prosecutions, and was a member of the Interagency Working Group for Nazi War Criminal Documents. Marwell also serves as President of the Leo Baeck Institute and on the board of the [http://www.faspe-ethics.org FASPE] (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics), the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim, the [https://www.defiantrequiem.org/ Defiant Requiem Foundation], and the Center for Jewish History.
In 2020, Marwell published Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death, a forensic account of Josef Mengele's life and career.{{Cite news |last=Aschheim |first=Steven |date=2020-01-28 |title=How Did Josef Mengele Become the Evil Doctor of Auschwitz? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/books/review/mengele-david-g-marwell.html |access-date=2025-05-13 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
Works
- Mengele: Unmasking the "Angel of Death". Norton & Company, Incorporated, W.W., 2020. {{ISBN|9780393609530}}
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Category:21st-century American historians
Category:21st-century American male writers