Dr. Iael Nidam-Orvieto

Dr. Iael Nidam-Orvieto has been Director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem since 2013, and teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was the Editor-in-Chief of the Publications department of Yad Vashem. Dr. Nidam-Orvieto received her PhD in Holocaust Studies at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry - the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her main fields of research are Italian Jews, Jewish responses during the Holocaust, Jewish leadership The Vatican and the Holocaust and Rescue Attempts during the Holocaust. She was a research-fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem, at the International Research Institute of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and at Pisa University. She co-edited with Prof. David Bankier and Prof. Dan Michman, Pius XII and the Holocaust: Current State of Research (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem Publications, 2012). She also co-edited with Dr. Robert Rozett, After So Much Pain and Anguish: First Letters after Liberation (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem Publications, 2016). She is the recipient of several prizes and grants such as the Research Fellowship of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoa, Paris, a Prize from the “Shlomo Glas and Fanny Balaban-Glas Found, a Prize from the Ben Tzvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities and the Prize from the “Olivier Vodoz Fund for Scholarships and Research in the War Against Racial Discrimination”, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.