Katarzyna Person
{{Short description|Polish Holocaust historian}}
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.{{cite news |last1=Yudelson |first1=Larry |title='The more you learn, the more you want to tell' |url=https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/the-more-you-learn-the-more-you-want-to-tell/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=Jewish Standard |publisher=Jewish Standard |date=9 February 2022}}
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.{{cite web |title=Katarzyna Person |url=https://www.ehri-project.eu/Katarzyna-Person/ |website=Institute for Contemporary History, Munich |publisher=European Holocaust Research Infrastructure |access-date=21 December 2024}}, 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).{{cite web|access-date=2024-11-12 |language=en |title=Projects supported by the Foundation |url=https://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/en/projects?page=182 |website=gerda-henkel-stiftung.de}}
As head of the scientific department of the Jewish Historical Institute, she coordinated 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.{{cite web|access-date=2023-09-16 |language=pl |title=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 |url=https://bip.ihpan.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Person-Wooddin_Uchwala-RN-IHPAN.pdf |website=bip.ihpan.edu.pl}}
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.{{cite web |title=Dr. Katarzyna Person is the deputy director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum |url=https://1943.pl/en/artykul/dr-katarzyna-person-the-deputy-director-of-the-warsaw-ghetto-museum/ |website=Muzeum Getta Warszawskiego (Warsaw Ghetto Museum) |publisher=Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Republic of Poland |access-date=21 December 2024}}
Person is director of the Full Edition of the Ringelblum Archive publication project At the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.
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.{{cite web |title=Katarzyna Person |url=https://dandavidprize.org/winners/katarzyna-person/ |website=Dan David Prize |date=2 July 2024 |publisher=The Dan David Prize |access-date=21 December 2024}}{{cite web |title=Dan David Prize for historian studying Jewish archive in Warsaw Ghetto |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkiuqyfdc |website=Ynetnews |date=3 July 2024 |publisher=Yedioth Communications |access-date=22 December 2024}} For her book Policemen: the image of the Jewish Order Service in the Warsaw Ghetto, she was nominated for the 2019 Polityka Historical Awards{{cite web|access-date=22 December 2024 |language=pl |title=Nominacje do Nagród Historycznych "Polityki" 2019 |url=https://www.jhi.pl/artykuly/nominacje-do-nagrod-historycznych-polityki-2019,476 |website=Jewish Historical Institute}} and the Kazimierz Moczarski Historical Award.{{cite web|access-date=22 December 2024 |language=pl |title=Nagroda Moczarskiego 2019 – nominacje. "Policjanci. Wizerunek Żydowskiej Służby Porządkowej w getcie warszawskim" Katarzyny Person |url=https://wyborcza.pl/alehistoria/7,121681,25410278,nagroda-moczarskiego-2018-nominacje-policjanci-wizerunek.html |website=wyborcza.pl}}
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){{cite journal |last1=Person |first1=Katarzyna |title=Jews from Poland and Jewish Honor Courts as Spaces of Retribution in the Immediate Postwar World |journal=Journal: Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah 2021/2 No 214 |date=8 November 2021 |volume=2021/2 |issue=2 |pages=55–69 |doi=10.3917/rhsho.214.0055 |url=https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-d-histoire-de-la-shoah-2021-2-page-55?lang=en |access-date=25 December 2024}}
- Pawiak Prison and the Jewish Community of Warsaw Under Nazi Occupation (1939-1944) (Academia 2023. In Hebrew).{{cite web |last1=Person |first1=Katarzyna |title=Pawiak Prison and the Jewish Community of Warsaw Under Nazi Occupation (1939-1944) (Hebrew) |url=https://www.academia.edu/122621097 |website=Academia |date=January 2023 |access-date=25 December 2024}}
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Category:Historians of World War II
Category:Holocaust historiography