Rochelle G. Saidel, Ph.D., is the founder and executive director of the Remember the Women Institute, a not-for-profit organization based in New York City that carries out and encourages research and cultural projects that integrate women into history. Her own focus is on women during the Holocaust. She is the author or editor of six books on various aspects of the Holocaust. She is co-editor of Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust, part of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute's series on Jewish women and a National Jewish Book Awards finalist in the Women's Studies category. Her newest book is Mielec, Poland: The Shtetl That Became a Nazi Concentration Camp, partially based on research carried out as a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. She is the author of The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, a National Jewish Book Awards finalist in the Holocaust Studies and Women's Studies categories; and the editor of an expanded edition of the memoir of the sister of former New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, Fiorello's Sister: Gemma La Guardia Gluck's Story. She is also the author of Never Too Late To Remember: The Politics Behind New York City's Holocaust Museum and The Outraged Conscience: Seekers of Justice for Nazi War Criminals in America. She curated an innovative exhibit and authored an accompanying catalog entitled Women of Ravensbrück, Portraits of Courage: Art by Julia Terwilliger for the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, FL. She has written and lectured internationally on the Holocaust for more than thirty-five years, presenting lectures and conference papers throughout the United States, as well as in Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Russia, and Sweden, and has contributed chapters to a number of books. She was a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Visiting Scholar for a seminar on Cultural Responses to the Holocaust in America and Abroad, Brandeis University, and has been a senior researcher at the Center for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, for some twenty years. She received her PhD in Political Science from The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. She made Aliyah to Israel in 2001, and currently divides her time among Jerusalem, New York City, and São Paulo.