About Paul A. Shapiro
Born 1950. Paul A. Shapiro is an American historian, opinion journalist and editor-in-chief.
Paul A. Shapiro is director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. In 2010, he was presented with the Cross of the Order of Merit by the German Ambassador to the United States, Klaus Scharioth, at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. The cross is Germany's highest civilian award.
Selected publications The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942: A documentary history of the Holocaust in Romania's contested borderlands. University of Alabama Press, 2015.
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