Award-winning journalist Allan Chernoff served as senior correspondent for CNN for 11 years and reported for CNBC and NBC News for a decade. He is a writer, speaker, and Holocaust educator who is among the leading voices of the Second Generation, children of Holocaust survivors who preserve the memory and historical accuracy of the Holocaust and continue to share its lessons for future generations.
The Tailors of Tomaszow: A Memoir of Polish Jews brings to life the lost society of Polish Jewry as it tells the fascinating story of the Holocaust survivors of Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland.
The Tailors of Tomaszow: A Memoir of Polish Jews, co-written with Allan’s mother, Rena Margulies Chernoff, one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, stands out among Holocaust literature for its highly detailed portrait of pre-war Polish-Jewish society, featuring the community of Tomaszow-Mazowiecki in central Poland. Survivors of the Holocaust, who were children and young adults when they regained their freedom at the end of World War II in 1945, vividly recall their incredible survival during the Nazi genocide and the world that they lost.
Allan is a Heritage Testimony speaker for the Museum of Jewish Heritage, a trainer for the Names, Not Numbers film project, and served for many years as an interviewer for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (now the USC Shoah Foundation).
A 30-year veteran of network television news and an insightful commentator on the news media, Allan is the recipient of six best reporting awards from the Society of Professional Journalists' New York chapter, two National Headliner Awards, two New York Festival Awards, and was a reporter on teams winning three Peabody Awards and a DuPont Award.
As CEO of Chernoff Communications, a strategic corporate and financial communications firm, he provides media consulting, training, writing, and video production services to leading corporations and not-for-profit organizations.
Allan’s writing has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Forward, New York Daily News, Newsweek, Fortune, Forbes, and Money.
