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I am an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philology at the University of 艁贸d藕 and a researcher at the German Historical Institute Warsaw. I am also leading a research project at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Warsaw, NCN OPUS22 (2022-2026). I studied history and sociology at the University of Warsaw and the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, and obtained my PhD in history from the School of Social Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Warsaw (2008). I have many years of experience working in museums as an educator at Polin (2007-2011) and as a curator at the House of European History in Brussels (2011-2015). I also worked as a researcher at the Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences Berlin (2015-2019), where I coordinated one of the working groups of the HORIZON2020 research project . From 2019 to 2022, I was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute Warsaw. I am a member of the Polish-German Textbook Commission.

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• Memory Studies with a special focus on "Transnational Memory"
• Memory of the Second World War and the Holocaust
• Museum Studies
• Polish and German contemporary history with a special focus on the Second World War and the early post-war period

 

Bibliography (Selection containing only articles published within last 10 years)

Monograps

• Przerwana 偶a艂oba. Polskie spory wok贸艂 pami臋ci nazistowskich oboz贸w koncentracyjnych i zag艂ady 1944-1940, Warszawa: Trio 2009.
• Etniczna polityka komunist贸w. Dwa casusy, Warszawa: Trio 2010 (with Agnieszka Nowakowska).
• Arrested Mourning. Memory of Nazi Camps in Poland, 1944-1950, (series "Warsaw Studies in Contemporary History", eds. Dariusz Stola i Machteld Venken), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 2013. Open Access: 

 

Edited book and special issues

• The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory, Wayne State University Press 2024 (with Natalia Aleksiun and Raphael Utz).
• Acta Poloniae Historica 128 (2023), Special issue: Mnemonic Wars in Poland (w Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska and Joanna Wawrzyniak).
• Memory Studies 15(6), 2022, Special Issue: Mnemonic Wars: New Constellations (with Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska and Joanna Wawrzyniak).

Articles in peer-reviewed journals 

• A Beech Tree for the Righteous: On the Interplay between Local, National and Transnational Memory Politics, Holocaust and Genocide Studies [accepted for publication].
• W poszukiwaniu nowych sposob贸w na wyra偶enie tego, co trudne do poj臋cia. Muzea i miejsca pami臋ci po艣wi臋cone Zag艂adzie w XXI w., Zag艂ada 呕yd贸w. Studia i Materia艂y 20 (2024), pp. 717-45. Open Access: 

• Mnemonic Wars in Poland: An Introduction to New Research Directions, Acta Poloniae Historica 128 (2023), pp. 5-25 (with Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska and Joanna Wawrzyniak). Open Access: 

• New constellations of mnemonic wars: An introduction, Memory Studies 15(6), 2022, pp. 1275-1288 (with Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska and Joanna Wawrzyniak). Open Access: 

• The 鈥楻ighteous鈥� as an Element of Transnational Memory Politics: The Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust and the Memory of the Rescue of Jews during the Second World War, Acta Poloniae Historica 125 (2022), pp. 133-53. Open Access: 

• A Global Label and its Local Appropriations. Representations of the Righteous Among the Nations in Contemporary European Museums, Memory Studies 1(15), 2022, pp. 20-36. Open Access:  

• 鈥濻erdecznie dzi臋kujemy za przybli偶enie nam historii Polak贸w ratuj膮cych 呕yd贸w鈥�. Recepcja polskich muze贸w 鈥濻prawiedliwych鈥� w 艣wietle wpis贸w w ksi臋gach go艣ci 鈥� Apteka pod Or艂em, Willa 呕abi艅skich, Muzeum Ulm贸w, Teksty Drugie 4 (2020), pp. 88-212. Open Access: file:///Users/mac/Downloads/td-17200.pdf

• Cultural Diplomacy in the War Museum: The Case of the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, History & Memory 2(31), 2019, pp. 78-116 (with David Clarke).
• Global patterns, local interpretations: new Polish museums dedicated to the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History 3(25), 2019, pp. 248-272.
• War Museums and Agonistic Memory. A Report (with Stefan Berger, Anna Cento Bull, Cristian Cercel, Nina Parish, Ma艂gorzata Quinkenstein and Eleanor Rowley), Museum Worlds 6 (2018), pp. 112-124. Open Access:  

Book chapters in collected volumes

• 鈥楲a mutevole immagine dei prigioneri dei campi di concentramento e la 鈥渟talinizzatione鈥� della memoria polacca,鈥� in: Nicola Labanca (ed.), Ostaggio della guerra. Vittime civili del secondo conflitto mondiale, Rzym: Viella 2025, pp. 43-66.
• 鈥楢rchaeological Findings in the Permanent Exhibition in Sobib贸r,鈥� in: Martijn Eickhoff, Erik Somers, Jelke Take (eds.), Excavating Sobibor. Holocaust Archaeology between Heritage, History and Memory, Zwolle: W BOOKS 2024, pp. 167-82. Open Access: 

• 鈥楾hank You So Much for Bringing Us Closer to the Story of Poles Rescuing Jews鈥�: Reception of Polish 鈥淩ighteous鈥� Museums in the Light of Visitor Book Entries鈥擡agle Pharmacy, 呕abi艅ski Villa, Ulma Museum,鈥� in: Simacha Fishbane, Eric. M. Levine (eds.), Ha-Tov v鈥檋a-Meitiv: Contemporary Scholarship in Jewish Studies. Essays in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of Touro University, Touro University Press 2024, pp. 82-102.
• 鈥楾he Rescue Turn: An Introduction,鈥� in: The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory, Natalia Aleksiun and Raphael Utz, Zofia W贸ycicka (eds.), Wayne State University Press 2024, pp. 1-20. (z Natali膮 Aleksiun i Raphaelem Utzem).
• 鈥榁on Madagaskar nach Sochy: Gibt es in Polen eine 鈥瀖ultidirektionale Erinnerung鈥�?鈥� in: Meron Mendel (eds.), Singularit盲t im Plural. Kolonialismus, Holocaust und der zweite Historikerstreit, Bazylea: BeltzJuventa 2023, pp. 122-130.
• 鈥榁on den 鈥瀠ngl眉cklichen Lageropfern鈥� zu den 鈥瀎einsten S枚hnen des Vaterlandes鈥�. Der Wandel des Bildes von ehemaligen KZ-H盲ftlingen und die 鈥濻talinisierung鈥� der polnischen Erinnerung an den Zweiten Weltkrieg,鈥� in: Philipp Neumann-Thein, Daniel Schuch und Markus Wegewitz (eds.), Organisiertes Ged盲chtnis. Kollektive Aktivit盲ten von 脺berlebenden der nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen, G枚ttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2022, pp. 253-282.
• 鈥楳emory Cultures of War in European War Museums,鈥� in: Stefan Berger, Wulf Kansteiner (wyd.), Agonistic Memory and Representations of War in Twentieth Century Europe, Palgrave Macmillan 2021, pp. 69-114 (with Stefan Berger, Anna Cento Bull, Cristian Cercel, David Clarke, Nina Parish and Eleanor Rowley).
• 鈥楨ngaging with Sources, Museum Objects,鈥� in: Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method (the Resources), Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2021 (online publication).
• 鈥楶ami臋膰 spo艂eczna. Aktualne dyskusje i nurty badawcze,鈥� in: S艂awomir Gawlas i Pawe艂 呕mudzki (eds.) Symboliczne i realne podstawy to偶samo艣ci spo艂ecznej w 艣redniowieczu, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2017, pp. 102-120.
• 鈥楢uf dem Weg zu einer gemeinsamen Erinnerung? Die Internationalen Auschwitz- und buchenwald-Komitees in den Jahren von 1952 bis 1989/1990,鈥� in: Enrico Heitzer, G眉nter Morsch, Katarzyna Woniak, Robert Traba (eds.), Von Mahnst盲tten 眉ber zeithistorische Museen zu Orten des Massentourismus?Gedenkst盲tten an Orten von NS-Verbrechen in Polen und Deutschland, Berlin: Metropol Verlag 2016.

Exhibition reviews

• W poszukiwaniu trzeciej drogi. Nowa wystawa sta艂a w Muzeum 呕ydowskim w Berlinie (cz臋艣膰 鈥濳atastrofa鈥�), Zag艂ada 呕yd贸w. Studia i Materia艂y 19/ (2023), pp. 673-684. Open Access: 

• Muzeum dla doros艂ych. Nowa wystawa w Miejscu Pami臋ci Cichych Bohater贸w w Berlinie, Zag艂ada 呕yd贸w. Studia i Materia艂y 18 (2022), pp. 760-70. Open Access: 

• Zachowa膰 decorum. Nowa ekspozycja sta艂a w Muzeum i Miejscu Pami臋ci w Sobiborze, Zag艂ada 呕yd贸w. Studia i Materia艂y 17 (2021), pp. 633-48. Open Access:  

• Laboratorium zag艂ady 鈥� nowa ekspozycja historyczna na terenie obozu zag艂ady Kulmhof w Che艂mnie nad Nerem, Zag艂ada 呕yd贸w. Studia i Materia艂y 16 (2020), pp. 747-58. Open Access: 

• Too Beautiful to Hurt Anyone: The New Permanent Exhibition at the AfricaMuseum Tervuren, Cultures of Memory Forum published online 29.09.2020. Open Access: 

• Buchenwald Revisited, Cultures of History Forum, published online 8.02.2018:
• Buchenwald revisited. Zag艂ada 呕yd贸w. Studia I Materia艂y 13 (2017), pp. 829-839. Open Access:  

• Das Museum des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Danzig, Historie: Jahrbuch des Zentrums f眉r Historische Forschung Berlin der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 17 (2017).

Research projects and grants

• PI in the NCN OPUS22
• Realizacja projektu badawczego NCN Miniatura2 鈥濺escue of Jews during the Second Wolrd War in narratives of European Museums"
• Participation the the HORIZON2020 research project Unsettling Remembering and Social Cohesion in Transnational Europe (UNREST) 鈥� coordination of the WP 鈥淲ar Museums鈥�
• Grant NPRH for the English tranlation of my book Arrested Mourning. Memory of Nazi Camps in Poland, 1944-1950

Awards

- First Book Award of the Weekly 鈥濸olityki鈥� for the book Przerwana

偶a艂oba. Polskie spory wok贸艂 nazistowskich oboz贸w koncentracyjnych i zag艂ady,

1944-1950 (2009)