David Pilgrim, Chief Diversity Officer and Professor of Sociology, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan

In 1996, David Pilgrim established the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University in Michigan. As the university's Chief Diversity Officer and a professor of sociology, one of Pilgrim's goals is to use objects of intolerance to teach about tolerance.

Sayana Ser, Team Leader, Student Outreach and Cham Oral History Project, Documentation Center of Cambodia, Phnom Penh

Sayana Ser was born in Cambodia in 1981, two years after the fall of dictator Pol Pot. Today, Ser works to help her country heal from that genocide. As part of that effort, Ser decided to translate The Diary of Anne Frank into her native language of Khmer.

Christopher Leighton, Executive Director, Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies

Since 1987, Christopher Leighton has served as the Executive Director of the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore. A Presbyterian minister, Leighton is deeply committed to disarming religious hatred and establishing models of interfaith understanding.

Daniel Craig, actor

Actor Daniel Craig is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of Agent 007 in the James Bond movies. But his latest film, Defiance, is based on the true story of the Bielski brothers, who led a resistance against the Nazis during the Second World War.

Helen Jonas, Holocaust Survivor

When Helen Jonas speaks of SS officer Amon Goeth, her voice still bears traces of the horrors she witnessed as his house servant at the Plaszow Concentration Camp. Sixty years later, Jonas met with Goeth's daughter Monika, a meeting recorded for the documentary film Inheritance.

Col. Edward B. Westermann, Commander, Air Force Basic Military Training, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas

Colonel Edward Westermann believes it's important to prepare his cadets to confront morally complicated situations. In a seminar he taught on the Holocaust, Westermann called upon his students to consider carefully the responsibilities of their post.

Alexander Verkhovsky, Director, SOVA Center for Information and Analysis, Moscow, Russia

Concerned about a rise in racism and violence, Alexander Verkhovsky examines how interethnic conflict is fostered and spread throughout his native Russia.

Nechama Tec, Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Connecticut, Stamford

Nechama Tec believes it's important to examine the Holocaust from many different angles. In her work, she looks at the places where antisemitism and sexism intersect, and at the particular ways in which women endured Nazi persecution.

Harald Edinger, former Gedenkdienst intern, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

In 2006, while still a teenager, Harald Edinger left his home in Austria to work at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. During his 14 months in Washington D.C., Edinger learned something valuable about the past, the future, and the role of his generation.

Beverly E. Mitchell, Professor of Historical Theology, Wesley Theological Seminary

In Plantations and Death Camps: Religion, Ideology, and Human Dignity, Beverly Mitchell looks at the history both of the Holocaust and of slavery in the U.S. to see what lessons about human dignity can be learned.