Ex-members of the ICE

Sybil Milton (1941–2000), Vice-Chairwoman and member of the Commission until she passed away in October 2000
Historian

Sybil Milton was born in 1941 in New York. University studies at Columbia and Stanford. Has taught at the universities of Stanford, Tulane, Columbia, Maryland and Macquarie (Australia). From 1974 to 1984, head of archives at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. 1987–1997 senior historian at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Curator of various special and itinerant exhibitions in the USA and in Europe. Member of the advisory committee of the Topography of Terror Memorial (Berlin), of the Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz (Berlin) and of Mauthausen (Vienna). Member of the New York Academy of Sciences.

 Major publications:

• The Holocaust: Ideology, Bureaucracy, and Genocide. The San Jose Papers, New York 1980 (co-editor and co-author).
• Art of the Holocaust, New York 1981, London 1982 (co-author). Winner of the 1982 National Jewish Book Award in Visual Arts.
• In Fitting Memory: The Art and Politics of Holocaust Memorials, Detroit 1991.
• Archives of the Holocaust, New York 1990–1995, 26 vols. (co-editor).
• Vorstufe zur Vernichtung: Die Zigeunerlager nach 1933, in: Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte 43, 1995, pp.115–130.

Joseph Voyame, Vice-Chairman (Member of the Commission until April 2000)
Jurist

Joseph Voyame was born in 1923 in Bassecourt (Canton Jura). Law school at the University of Berne, attorney-at-law, director of the Federal Office for Intellectual Property of the FDJP, and later deputy director of the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva. Director of the United Nations Commission for the Prevention of Torture. Special reporter for the United Nations' Commission of Human Rights, director of the Romanian Institute for Human Rights.