Prof. Wolf Gruner is the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and founding director of the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. He is an appointed member of the Academic Committee at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of eleven books, among them Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis, Economic Needs and Nazi Racial Aims, among others, and the prize-winning The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia. Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses (2019). His most recent book, Resisters. How Ordinary Jews Fought Hitler’s Persecution is a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Yad Vashem International Book Prize.