Jutta Raab Hansen studied musicology at Berlin Humboldt University gaining her diploma in 1976. She researched at the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation between 1991-1994 then went on to gain her doctorate at the Institute of Musicology, Hamburg University, on the subject “NS-persecuted musicians in England: traces of German and Austrian musicians in British musical life”; published by von Bockel Verlag Hamburg in 1996. She then worked as editor and music critic in Berlin and Hamburg. Since 2003 Jutta has been living and working freelance in London, UK with an interim stay in Australia (2007-2008), writing essays and lectures linked to exiled musicians.

Gila Flam was born in Israel and studied musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  She received her PhD in Music from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation topic was on songs of the Lodz Ghetto, which was based on interviews and recordings of survivors.  It was published by University of Illinois Press, 1992, under the title “Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto 1940-1945".  Her book is considered a paramount work on Music in the Holocaust. Her first position was to establish the music collection and section at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Gila Flam returned to Israel in 1992, and since 1994 she has been the director of the Music Department and the Sound archives of The National Library of Israel.  In 1999 she received a degree in Archival studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Flam is also a lecturer at several academic institutions, where she teaches topics of Jewish and Israeli music. She is the author of many articles and books on Israeli music, Yiddish song and other topics and a performer of Yiddish songs.

David Bloch, founder-director of the Terezín Music Memorial Project, has promoted Terezín and related music for nearly 21 years, through concerts with members of The Group for New Music in Europe, North America, England, Russia, Uzbekistan and in Israel, often inviting European artists for concerts and recordings. He is producer and artistic director of the Terezín Music Anthology CD series, does research, lectures (in Israel, Europe, North America, India and Australia), writes articles and is Series Editor for Boosey & Hawkes/Bote & Bock, preparing an edition of Terezín works for first-time publication. He has been music consultant adviser for a number of documentary films, include A Terezín Diary, Visible Pictures, 1989; The Music of Terezín. BBC Television, 1993; Goethe and Ghetto. Swedish Television, Documentary on Viktor Ullmann. 1995; Prisoner in Paradise. Alliance Atlantis, Documentary on Kurt Gerron. 2002; and the text for Forbidden Music: Composers and the Third Reich (An In-Context Presentation/Video Program Note), New World Symphony, Miami Beach, Florida, 2004). Prof. Bloch taught for nine years at Portland State University, Oregon, and has taught thirty-three years at Tel Aviv University in the Department of Musicology, including chairman for four years. He often gives seminars on Terezín music for teachers under the auspices of Yad Vashem and as music advisor.

Lloica Czackis was born in Germany in 1973 to Argentinian parents and grew up in Venezuela. She studied singing and choral conducting in Buenos Aires and completed her training at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London under Vera Rosza and David Pollard, supported by British Council scholarship. With a repertoire that extends from the Renaissance to the avant-garde, she appeared in the main European festivals of contemporary music with the New London Chamber Choir, also as a soloist. She has given numerous recitals of vocal chamber music in Buenos Aires and Europe. Since 1999 Lloica conceives and performs programmes on Latin American and European 20th Century music, cabaret and tango. Her Millennium Award-winning show Tangele: The Pulse of Yiddish Tango, with musical arrangements by Maestro Gustavo Beytelmann, continues to be featured in festivals across Europe, the USA and South America, since its London première in 2002. In 2003 she created Terezín Karussell with David Bloch on piano, a recital of tangos, art and cabaret songs by Terezín composers, first presented at the Brundibár Festival in Manchester, UK, and then repeated in England, France and Argentina. In addition to her musical career, Lloica researches the Yiddish tango : in 2005 she completed a DEA (MPhil) of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her research has been published in English and Spanish. www.lloicaczackis.com

Dr. Guido Jochen Fackler Studied Folklore, Musicology, and Ethnology at the University of Freiburg, Germany; ”Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History 1992” from the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library, London for M.A. Thesis about Jazz in Terezín (1991); Co- Creator of the event series ”Music in Concentration Camps” (1991), which was awarded the ”Theo Pinkus Prize 1992”; Participant with the research project, ”Culture in Nazi Socialist Concentration Camps: Culture as a Survival Strategy” at the University of Regensburg; Ph.D received 1997 with  ”Des Lagers Stimme” ¯ Musik im KZ [”The Voice of the Camp”: Music in Concentration Camps] (Bremen, 2000). Since April 1999, Assistant Professor in European Ethnology (Volkskunde) at the University of Würzburg, Germany.

Rebecca Rovit is a theater historian whose co-edited Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust: Documents, Texts, Memoirs (with Alvin Goldfarb, 1999), was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her publications on German theater and theatrical creativity under the Nazis and during the Holocaust have appeared in American Theater, TDR, Theatre Survey, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, and most recently, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She is currently completing a monograph on the theater repertoire of the Jewish Kulturbund theater, Berlin, 1933-1941.

Alice Autumn Weinreb was born and raised in Berkeley, California, and obtained her BA in Women's History from Columbia University in 1999. She then moved to Berlin, where she earned a MA in Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at the Humboldt University. In 2009 she received her PhD from the University of Michigan with a dissertation on the politics of food and hunger in postwar Germany.  Currently, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor in German History at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Amy Wlodarski is currently assistant professor of music at Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA) and holds degrees in musicology from the Eastman School of Music, where she authored a dissertation exploring the manner in which German composers musically represented the Holocaust in the immediate postwar period.  Her work generally  focuses on the manner in which memory influences musical composition  and reception, especially in musical memorials and political works.   She has published articles on mnemonic row forms in Arnold  Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw, how memory influenced  contemporary performance practice in a staging of Hans Krasa's  Brundibar, and awaits a forthcoming article on Hanns Eisler's film  score for Nuit et Brouillard [Night and Fog].  She is also the  recipient of several grants, including a Fulrbight, a Presser Music  Foundation Award, and the Elsa T. Johnson Award, and recently spoke  in conjunction with the Los Angeles Opera's Recovered Voices series,  which aims to reinstate music suppressed during the Third Reich.

Abigail Wood is Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music at SOAS, University of London. She completed her PhD on "Yiddish song in contemporary north America" in 2004 at Cambridge University, and taught ethnomusicology for three years at Southampton University before taking up her present post. Her current research focuses on contemporary Yiddish song and klezmer music, and music in immigrant communities in Israel. She regularly gives visiting lectures on klezmer and other aspects of Jewish music, and is on the faculty of Klezfest, the Jewish Music Institute's summer Yiddish music programme in London.

Dov Levin, a member of the Kovno ghetto underground and later a partisan fighter in the forests of Lithuania, is the author of Fighting Back: Lithuanian Jewry's Armed Resistance to the Nazis, 1941-1945 (Holmes & Meier, New York, 1985).  Professor Levin is currently Director of the Oral History Division of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Dr. Lily E. Hirsch is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Cleveland State University. She attended the Conservatory of Music at the University of Pacific in Stockton, California, where she earned a Bachelor of Music magna cum laude with a major in music history in 2001. At Duke University, she received her Master’s degree in 2003 and her Ph.D. in musicology at the end of 2006. She has published articles in Philomusica, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and has a forthcoming article in Musical Quarterly. She has also presented at the national conferences of both the American Musicological Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology, and received research support from the German Historical Institute, the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD), and the Leo Baeck Institute. She is currently working on a book on the Jüdischer Kulturbund (Jewish Culture League) with the University of Michigan Press.

Joseph Toltz is a professional singer who has worked for many years in secular and Jewish vocal ensembles in Sydney. In 1991 Joseph was appointed Choirmaster of the Great Synagogue, and moved to Emanuel Synagogue in 1995 as Musical Director. Work at Emanuel Synagogue expanded to include pastoral care and other duties and Joseph was appointed Cantor of the congregation in 2001.  In August 2008 he left Emanuel Synagogue to complete his PhD and pursue an academic career. Joseph completed his honours degree in Music at the University of Sydney in 2004 (H1, University Medal) on the topic of Brundibár. Currently the holder of an Australian Government Scholarship, Joseph is completing his PhD, examining musical memory shaped through the experiences of Jewish survivors of concentration camps, ghettos and those who escaped in hiding, paying specific attention to issues of reconstruction of this memory in a post-traumatic context.  Joseph has interviewed 70 survivors in Australia, the UK and Israel for this project.

Geoffrey Shisler has been Rabbi of the New West End Synagogue, London, since 2000. He trained at Jews' College, London and commenced his career as a Cantor serving various congregations in that capacity. Rabbi Shisler has taught Cantorial singing at Jews' College for eleven years and recently published 'Shiru Lo Shir Chadash' - 'Sing to Him a New Song' a book of original compositions for use in the Synagogue, home and school. Website:  www.geoffreyshisler.com

Tina Frühauf is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and Editor at Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale in New York. Her scholarly work explores Jewish music in Western Diaspora and, most recently, dance. Her German and English publications include articles in Musica Judaica, Music and Art, and Orgel International, numerous book chapters and encyclopaedia contributions on the German-Jewish music culture, organs and organ music, the piano and the violin. She is the author of The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Sophie Fetthauer studied Musicology and German Literature at the University of Hamburg, and since 1996 has pusued research within the study group „Exilmusik“ through a number of publications (Das „Reichs-Brahmsfest“ 1933 in  Hamburg. Rekonstruktion und Dokumentation, 1997; Lebenswege von Musikerinnen im „Dritten Reich“ und im  Exil, 2000, Music). In 1998 she secured a research assignment from Deutsche Grammophon to publish the book Deutsche Grammphon. Geschichte eines Schallplattenunternehmens im „Dritten Reich“ (2000). From 2000-2002 she was awarded a doctoral scholarship by the Friedrich Ebert  Stiftung, to work on her publication Musikverlage im „Dritten Reich“ und im Exil (2004). She was editorial assistant at the Hochschule für Musik and Theater Hamburg (Musik und Gender im Internet) and since 2005 has been editorial assistant at the Musikwissenschaftliches Institut der Universität Hamburg (Lexikon verfolgter Musiker und Musikerinnen der NZ-Zeit, http://www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de).

Suzanne Snizek received her BM from Indiana University- Bloomington, a MM from the University of the Arts (Philadelphia) and is nearing completion of a DMA at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (BC, Canada). The topic of her thesis research is the musical culture within the British internment Camps of WWII, with particular focus on Huyton, Hutchinson, and Central Camps. She has presented papers at conferences in both Canada and the UK, as well as given public lecture- recitals related to this subject.  Her chapter on the subject of music in WWII British internment will be published later this year for Exilarte.  From 1999-2004 she was a faculty member at the University of the Arts; currently she is on faculty as both Trinity Western University and Douglas College Community Music School (BC, Canada). As a performing musician, she has enjoyed an active and eclectic career, performing with ensembles in the United States, France, Taiwan and Canada. These include performances with the Denver Symphony, the Moody Blues, the National Symphony of Taiwan (ESO), Roger Daltrey, the Bel Canto Opera Company and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. She has also recorded commercially for HBO, Kindermusic International and ESPN.

Tim Locke is based in Lewes, in Great Britain. He grew up in south London, and studied at Cambridge University from 1977 to 1981, and since 1985 has worked as a freelance writer and editor, specialising in travel books, particularly on Britain but also on parts of Europe and the USA. He has also written children's history books on life in Britain during Roman and Victorian times, and is currently writing a book on Slow tourism in Sussex and the South Downs National Park. His mother Ruth Locke (nee Neumeyer) came to England on the Kindertransport in 1938 at the age of 15, and still lives in the house where he was born in 1958. A grandson of the composer and holocaust victim Hans Neumeyer, he is also a keen amateur musician - an accompanist and participant in amateur opera productions.