Michael Grunberger joined the staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006, after more than twenty years at Library of Congress.   In his role as Director of Collections, he leads the Museum’s “Rescue the Evidence” initiative, which includes acquiring, making available, and preserving the historical record of the Holocaust.  In addition, he oversees the Museum’s digital collections initiative, which seeks to convert the Museum’s collections to digital format and to make them accessible globally via the internet.

As Director of Collections, he has primary responsibility for safeguarding the Museum’s extraordinary holdings on the Holocaust, which include more than 65 million pages of archival documents, as well as 138 million images recently received from the International Tracing Service; more than 16,000 artifacts; more than 85,000 photographic images; 96,000 books and other publications in 57 languages; more than 1,000 hours of archival film footage; and about 11,000 oral history testimonies, including 1,400 oral history testimonies of victims, bystanders, witnesses, and perpetrators.