David Abravanel Stein was born in Los Angeles, California.
In 1994 he co-founded the Tinbergen Archives, a Holocaust education
institution and research facility in Beverly Hills, California, and he
served as its director of operations from 1994 until 2004. The
Tinbergen Archives was named in honor of Isaac Tinbergen, a Jewish
victim of the Holocaust who, on the eve of his death, implored his
fellow Dutch Jews to "record and remember" their experiences. Under
David Stein's directorship, the Tinbergen Archives became one of the
leading suppliers of Holocaust education materials to colleges and
universities in North America.
In 1996 David created the documentary film division of the Tinbergen
Archives, and over the course of the next eight years he produced over
a dozen internationally renowned documentary films about the Holocaust,
World War II, and the struggle of peoples around the world against
racism and intolerance.
In 2004 he co-founded Cambio Entertainment, along with Francisco Roel,
who had directed several of the documentary films that he
produced.
[on his historical views] The best guess is yes, there were gas chambers. But there is still a lot of murkiness about the camps. I haven't changed my views. But I regret I didn't have the facility with language that I have now. I was just a kid.