Director & Management

DIRECTOR OF THE WARSAW GHETTO MUSEUM
Katarzyna Person

Historian. After completing her PhD at the University of London in 2010, she held fellowships at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, the Centre for Jewish History in New York, La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. She was awarded a Humboldt Foundation Fellowship at the Institute of Recent History in Munich and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship and Gerda Henkel Fellowship at Ludwig and Maximilian University in Munich. She headed the research department of the Jewish Historical Institute. In 2021, she was awarded a postdoctoral degree at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She has written articles and books on Jewish history during the Holocaust and in the immediate post-war period. Since 2015, she has headed the project for the full edition of the Ringelblum Archive at the Jewish Historical Institute. She is the editor and co-editor of five volumes of documents from the Underground Warsaw Ghetto Archive.

Selected publications:

  1. Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943 (2014)
  2. Policjanci: wizerunek Żydowskiej Służby Porządkowej w getcie warszawskim (Policemen: the image of the Jewish Ghetto Police in the Warsaw Ghetto) (2018)
  3. Dipisi: Żydzi polscy w amerykańskiej i brytyjskiej strefach okupacyjnych Niemiec, 1945-1948 (Displaced persons: Polish Jews in the American and British occupation zones of Germany, 1945-1948) (2019)
  4. Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: the Camp, the Children, the Trials (2023).

ADVISER FOR ORGANISING THE PERNAMENT EXHIBITION
Professor Michael Berenbaum

Michael Berenbaum is a writer, lecturer, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and the development of historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University (formerly the University of Judaism) where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. In the past he has served as the Weinstein Gold Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chapman University, the Podlich Distinguished Visitor at Claremont-McKenna College, the Ida E. King Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at Richard Stockton College for 1999–2000 and the Strassler Family Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies at Clark University in 2000.

Selected publications:

  1. The Vision of the Void: Theological Reflections on the Works of Elie Wiesel (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1979). Paperback edition, 1987. Reprinted as Elie Wiesel: God, The Holocaust, and the Children of Israel (West Orange: Behrman House, 1994).
  2. Report to the President, President’s Commission on the Holocaust (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979
  3. Editor, From Holocaust to New Life (New York: American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, 1985).
  4. Co-editor with John Roth, Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications (New York: Paragon Books, 1989.
  5. After Tragedy and Triumph: Modern Jewish Thought and the American Experience (Cambridge University Press, 1990).