Professor Peter Hayes is a world-renowned scholar of the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Educated at Bowdoin College, the University of Oxford (Balliol College), and Yale University, Peter Hayes is Professor Emeritus of History and German and Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University.

Sara R. Horowitz is Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at York University and an esteemed scholar of the Holocaust. She has been a Professor in the Division of Humanities and Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University since 2002, and is a former director of the Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University. Prior to moving to Toronto, Professor Horowitz served as an Associate Professor at the University of Delaware, where she helped establish the Jewish Studies Program and served as its first director.