Katarzyna Person

Katarzyna Person is a Polish historian. Her work focuses on Polish Jews of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

Born in 1982, Person is the daughter of Polish journalist and politician Andrzej Person. She grew up and lives in Warsaw where she studied journalism at the University of Warsaw. In 2010 under the supervision of David Cesarani she obtained a PhD in history at the University of London for her thesis on aspects of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. ^[1] She received, a postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2016-2017, Institute of Contemporary History (Munich)) during which she worked on a project exploring relations between Polish and Jewish Displaced Persons in postwar Germany, focusing in particular on Bavaria, and postdoctoral fellowships from the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem, the Center for Jewish History in New York City and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Foundation for the Memory of Shoah) in Paris. ^[2] , and a Maria Skłodowska-Curie fellowship in the Horizon Europe Programme (2020-2022, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich), a fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation (2022-2023, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich). ^[3]

As head of the scientific department of the Jewish Historical Institute, she coordinated the publication of the complete edition of the Ringelblum Archive. ^[2] She still coordinates the English edition of this archival collection. In 2020, she obtained a habilitation in history based on the thesis entitled Dipisi. Polish Jews in the American and British Occupation Zones of Germany, 1945–1948 at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. ^[4] In 2024 Person was appointed deputy director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum and continues (as of 2024) to head the scientific department of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute. ^[5] Person is director of the Full Edition of the Ringelblum Archive publication project At the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. ^[6]

Awards

Person was awarded a 2024 $300,000 Dan David Prize for her work on Holocaust archives and the recovery of marginalized voices at the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. ^{[6] [7]} For her book Policemen: the image of the Jewish Order Service in the Warsaw Ghetto, she was nominated for the 2019 Polityka Historical Awards ^[8] and the Kazimierz Moczarski Historical Award. ^[9]

Publications (selection)

• Industrial Concentration Camp. The Camp, the Children, the Trials (with Johannes-Dieter Steinert) (London: Palgrave Macmillian, 2023; ISBN   978-3-031-13947-5)
• Polnische Juden in der amerikanischen und der britischen Besatzungszone Deutschlands, 1945–1948 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 202; ISBN   978-3-447-12100-2)
• Warsaw Ghetto Police. Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation (Ithaca: Cornell University Press in association with USHMM, 2021; ISBN   978-1-5017-5407-4)
• Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943 (Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2014; ISBN   978-0-8156-3334-1)
• Polish Jews in the American and British Occupation Zones of Germany, 1945-1948 (Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, 2019; ISBN   978-83-65254-91-7)
• Policemen: The Image of the Jewish Order Service in the Warsaw Ghetto (Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, 2018; ISBN   978-83-65254-78-8)
• Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation (Cornell University Press in association with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2021) ISBN   978-1-5017-5407-4 doi : 10.4000/temoigner.11519
• Przemysłowa Concentration Camp. The Camp. The Children. The Trials (with Johannes-Dieter Steinert; Palgrave Macmillan 2023 ISBN   978-3-031-13947-5 , 978-3-031-13949-9)
• Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe: A People’s Justice? - Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe contributing author with Eric Le Bourhis (editor) et al. (Boydell & Brewer Ltd 2022 ISBN   978-1-64825-041-5)
• Jews from Poland and Jewish Honor Courts as Spaces of Retribution in the Immediate Postwar World, 1945–48 (Journal:Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah Cairn.Info, 2021/2 No 214 pp55-69) ^[10]
• Pawiak Prison and the Jewish Community of Warsaw Under Nazi Occupation (1939-1944) (Academia 2023. In Hebrew). ^[11]

References

1. Yudelson, Larry (9 February 2022). "'The more you learn, the more you want to tell'". Jewish Standard. Jewish Standard. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
2. "Katarzyna Person". Institute for Contemporary History, Munich. European Holocaust Research Infrastructure. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
3. "Projects supported by the Foundation". gerda-henkel-stiftung.de. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
4. "Uchwała nr 5/3/2020 Rady Naukowej lnstytutu Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN z 24 września 2020 r. w sprawie nadania stopnia naukowego doktora habilitowanego nauk humanistycznych w dyscyplinie historia dr Katarzynie Person-Woodin" (PDF). bip.ihpan.edu.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-09-16.
5. "Dr. Katarzyna Person is the deputy director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum". Muzeum Getta Warszawskiego (Warsaw Ghetto Museum). Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Republic of Poland. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
6. "Katarzyna Person". Dan David Prize. The Dan David Prize. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
7. "Dan David Prize for historian studying Jewish archive in Warsaw Ghetto". Ynetnews. Yedioth Communications. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
8. "Nominacje do Nagród Historycznych „Polityki" 2019". Jewish Historical Institute (in Polish). Retrieved 22 December 2024.
9. "Nagroda Moczarskiego 2019 – nominacje. „Policjanci. Wizerunek Żydowskiej Służby Porządkowej w getcie warszawskim" Katarzyny Person". wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 22 December 2024.
10. Person, Katarzyna. "Jews from Poland and Jewish Honor Courts as Spaces of Retribution in the Immediate Postwar World". Journal: Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah 2021/2 No 214. 2021/2: 55-69. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
11. Person, Katarzyna. "Pawiak Prison and the Jewish Community of Warsaw Under Nazi Occupation (1939-1944) (Hebrew)". Academia. Academia. Retrieved 25 December 2024.