Bret Werb

Bret Werb has served as the Musicologist & Recorded Sound Curator at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum since 1993, helping to build an archive and reference service used by researchers worldwide. He has programmed the Museum’s chamber music events, curated its online exhibition Music of the Holocaust, and produced and annotated four CDs of ghetto, camp and resistance songs. A contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Musica Judaica, and other scholarly books and periodicals, Werb holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from UCLA, has lectured widely, and collaborated on numerous theater, film, recording, and concert projects.