Manuel Herz Author & Editor

Robert Jan van Pelt is renowned internationally for his research on the Holocaust and the architecture of Auschwitz-Birkenau in particular, as well as on the architecture of the Jewish diaspora. He is a professor of architecture at University of Waterloo, Canada, and the author of numerous books.

Mark Podwal is a New York-based artist and the illustrator of many of Elie Wiesel's books. He has also published several books of his own, and his work is represented in important public collections, such as New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Manuel Herz runs his own design and urban planning studio in Basel and Cologne and has gained renown for his design of the New Synagogue in Mainz. He teaches as an assistant professor at University of Basel and is the editor of the widely acclaimed book African Modernism (Park Books, 2014).