Warren Marcus

Warren Marcus is a retired educator who taught middle and high school for 17 years and worked at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for 26 more.

Warren was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He lived in New England for twelve years, graduating from Brown University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and teaching at two schools in Massachusetts.

He returned to Maryland for his third teaching job at St Andrew’s Episcopal School in Maryland in a suburb of Washington, D.C. While there, Warren developed a successful and well-regarded senior history elective on Twentieth Century Issues, including sections on the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, Nuclear Weapons, and later, the Balkan Wars, and apartheid. In 1992, he was a national finalist for Social Studies Teacher of the Year in a program coordinated by the Disney Channel.

During his many years at the USHMM, Warren coordinated and directly presented teacher training programs onsite and around the United States for thousands of teachers. Thousands more viewed an online version of his workshop on teaching about the Holocaust responsibly. He developed lessons and learning tools for classroom, online, and Museum use. Warren also co-taught volunteers and staff to be docents for the main exhibit as well as temporary exhibits.

The Museum’s popular public program, First Person, conversations with survivors of the Holocaust, was funded in its debut year by the Marcus siblings, in honor of their father, Sydney Marcus, a WWII vet, who had recently passed away. Thereafter, for more than 20 years, Warren was closely involved with the survivor volunteer community at the Museum through First Person, docent training, and sitting with survivors at the desk in the central hall, where they were surrounded by students and adults who wanted to learn and to hear from them.

He worked for several years with military personnel, foreign and domestic, on exhibition tours and case studies focusing on lessons for plebes and officers building off of events of the Holocaust. Additionally, Warren contributed format and content to the online Holocaust Encyclopedia.

During retirement, he has been a substitute teacher, a delivery driver for a food recovery charity, a consultant, and a contractor continuing to provide content for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. A master putterer around the house, voracious reader, devotee of the Sunday New York Times puzzle, and an obedient servant of their dog Rosie, Warren lives outside of Washington DC with his wife, Lisa. They have two grown children, Ally and Joey.