Stacey Saiontz earned her B.A. in Political Science from University of Michigan in 1996 and J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law in 1999. Saiontz practiced commercial litigation in Washington D.C. and New York from 1999 until 2006. Saiontz has a passion for Holocaust remembrance and education as the granddaughter of two Holocaust survivors
Saiontz has served as a founding member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (USHMM) Next Generation Board since 2004. In 2019, she was appointed to serve on the USHMM’s Education Committee. She was the recipient of the 2017 USHMM Northeast Region Leadership Award and the 2019 National Leadership Award.
Saiontz serves on the Board of Trustees for the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. She served as a Board Member of the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation (AJCF) from 2016-2022, and along with her husband was the 2014 honorree at the annual AJCF gala. Saiontz also served as a member of the USC Shoah Foundation Next Generation Council. Since 2019, Saiontz has served as the Co-Chair for the Town of New Castle Holocaust & Human Rights Committee and also helped create the Holocaust Memorial in her town.
Saiontz is a third-generation speaker for the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center in White Plains, New York and for 3GNY’s WEDU (We Educate) program. Stacey shares this passion with her children, who were featured in the HBO documentary The Number on Great Grandpa’s Arm.
