Professor Daniel Blatman appointed the Chief Historian of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum.

The Warsaw Ghetto Museum management signed a contract with prof. Daniel Blatman under which professor was appointed museum’s chief historian. Professor will engage in forming museum’s Permanent Exhibition Team. He will direct that team’s work on the scenario of the permanent exhibition guiding the exhibition development and rollout.

“We are honoured that the Warsaw Ghetto Museum team is joined by a scholar of world renown, a distinguished and longstanding researcher of history of the Holocaust in the Polish lands,” said Albert Stankowski, director of the museum.

The inaugural meeting of prof. Blatman and the museum’s management and team addressed some of the key issues of the exhibition structure and content. The chief historian has emphasized that the crucial task of the permanent exhibition will be to provide a humanistic and universal message about the most tragic chapter in the history of Polish Jewry.

Next to the director Albert Stankowski, the meeting was attended by Dr Hanna Węgrzynek, deputy director for research and exhibition programming; Dr Halina Postek, education department head; Dr August Grabski, senior history research projects expert; David Berman, research expert, Dr Magdalena Tarnowska, art historian and curator, Dr Ewa Toniak, Dr Bartosz Kwieciński and Dr hab. Piotr Weiser.

Daniel Blatman resides permanently in Israel. He is the Max and Rita Haber Professor in Contemporary Jewry and Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also the head of the Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry and the former director of the Centre for the Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jewry at the same university. He has worked on the history of the Jewish labour movement in Eastern Europe, the Holocaust in Poland, Nazi annihilation policy and the 20th century genocide.

Daniel Blatman resides permanently in Israel. He is the Max and Rita Haber Professor in Contemporary Jewry and Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also the head of the Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry and the former director of the Centre for the Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jewry at the same university. He has worked on the history of the Jewish labour movement in Eastern Europe, the Holocaust in Poland, Nazi annihilation policy and the 20th century genocide.