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. 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., 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).

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. 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. Person is director of the Full Edition of the Ringelblum Archive publication project At the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. Provided by Wikipedia