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

She grew up and lives in Warsaw where she studied journalism at the University of Warsaw and in 2010 under the supervision of David Cesarani obtained a PhD in history at the University of London for her thesis on aspects of the Jews in the the Warsaw Ghetto.

She received, a postdoctoral fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation (2016-2017, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 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 La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah., 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.

deputy director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. Previously a researcher and head of the scientific department of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

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).

She was awarded a 2024 Dan David Prize for her work on Holocaust archives and the recovery of marginalized voices at the Warsaw Ghetto Museum.

Publications (selection)

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)

• Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto 1940-1943 (Syracuse University Press, 2014),

• Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation (Cornell University Press in association with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2021),

• Przemysłowa Concentration Camp. The Camp. The Children. The Trials (with Johannes-Dieter Steinert; Palgrave Macmillan 2023), *Polnische Juden in der amerikanischen und der britischen Besatzungszone Deutschlands, 1945–1948 (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023), among others.

Person is the author and co-author of five volumes of documents from the Ringelblum Archive. At the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw she is director of the Full Edition of the Ringelblum Archive publication project.

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. ^ "Katarzyna Person". Dan David Prize. The Dan David Prize. Retrieved 21 December 2024.

• 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.).