Helene J. Sinnreich

Helene Julia Sinnreich (born 1975) is the Director of the Fern and Manfred Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Tennessee. Sinnreich serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jewish Identities. She served as a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007.

• Some historians' reluctance to utilize victim testimony in their con-struction of Holocaust history may be a result of a prejudice among them to utilize only 'official documents' or to combat accusations of Holocaust deniers by being able to demonstrate the facts through the words of the Nazis themselves.
  • As quoted in Silence lifted: The untold stories of rape during the Holocaust (June 24, 2011) by Jessica Ravitz, CNN.