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Katarzyna PersonKatarzyna Person – Polish historian, Ph.D., deputy director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. Previously a researcher and head of the scientific department of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute.

Biography

She grew up and lives in Warsaw where she studied journalism at the University of Warsaw and obtained a PhD in history at the University of London on her research into the Warsaw Ghetto. “Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943.”

In 2010, under the supervision of David Cesarani, she obtained a doctorate in history at the University of London. She received, among others, a postdoctoral fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation (2016-2017, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich), a Maria Skłodowska-Curie fellowship in the Horizon Europe Programme (2020-2022, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich), a fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation (2022-2023, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich).

As head of the scientific department of the Jewish Historical Institute, she coordinated, among others, the publication of the complete edition of the Ringelblum Archive. 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.

She is a member of the Museum Council at the State Museum at Majdanek.

Daughter of journalist and politician Andrzej Person.

Awards

For her book Policemen: the image of the Jewish Order Service in the Warsaw Ghetto, she was nominated for the 2019 Polityka Historical Awards and the Kazimierz Moczarski Historical Award. As the project manager for the complete edition of the Ringelblum Archive, she received the Polityka Historical Award (2024) and the Klio Special Award (2023).

In 2024, she was one of the winners of the Dan David Prize. Selected author's bibliography

Industrial Concentration Camp. The Camp, the Children, the Trials (with Johannes-Dieter Steinert) (London: Palgrave Macmillian, 2023; ISBN 9783031139475) Polnische Juden in der amerikanischen und der britischen Besatzungszone Deutschlands, 1945–1948, (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 202; ISBN-13 978-3447121002)

Warsaw Ghetto Police. Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation (Ithaca: Cornell University Press in association with USHMM, 2021; ISBN 9751801754074)

Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943 (Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2014; ISBN:9780815633341) Dipisi: Polish Jews in the American and British Occupation Zones of Germany, 1945-1948 (Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, 2019; ISBN:9788365254917) Policemen: The Image of the Jewish Order Service in the Warsaw Ghetto (Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, 2018; ISBN:9788365254788)

Notes Dr hab. Katarzyna Person Zastępczynią Dyrektora MGW. 1943.pl. . (pol.). Dr. habil. Katarzyna Person-Wooddin. humboldt-foundation.de. . (ang.). Dr. Katarzyna Person. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow. jgk.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de. . (niem.). Projects supported by the Foundation. gerda-henkel-stiftung.de. . (ang.). Dr hab. Katarzyna Person na sympozjum „The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: Sources, Memory, Politics”. jhi.pl. . (pol.). 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. bip.ihpan.edu.pl. . (pol.). Dr hab. Katarzyna Person-Woodin, baza „Ludzie nauki” portalu Nauka Polska (OPI PIB) . Nominacje do Nagród Historycznych „Polityki” 2019. jhi.pl. . (pol.). Nagroda Moczarskiego 2019 – nominacje. „Policjanci. Wizerunek Żydowskiej Służby Porządkowej w getcie warszawskim” Katarzyny Person. wyborcza.pl. . (pol.). Nagrody Historyczne 2023 wręczone! Książki, które błyszczą jak diament. wydawca.com.pl. . (pol.). Nagroda Klio – wyniki 2023. wydawca.com.pl. . (pol.). Dr hab. Katarzyna Person laureatką Dan David Prize!. 1943.pl, 2024-07-02. . (pol.).

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