Katarzyna Person

Historian

Katarzyna Person is a public historian of the Holocaust and the director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. She spearheaded the publication of a 27-volume scholarly edition of the Ringelblum Archive, the underground archive collected by Jewish researchers and activists in the Warsaw Ghetto. Her work focuses on voices that had been silenced or seen as “unfit” for the transmission of Holocaust memory, such as women, children, those deemed “collaborators”, deportees and refugees. She holds a degree in journalism and social communication from the University of Warsaw, and a PhD in history from the University of London. She has held research fellowships at Yad Vashem, the Center for Jewish History (New York), and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Paris). From 2024, she served as deputy director for research and exhibition at the Warsaw Ghetto Museum before being appointed the museum’s director in March 2025. Her publications include Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation (2021), DPs. Polnische Juden in der amerikanischen und der britischen Besatzungszone Deutschlands, 1945–1948 (2023), Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trials (2023), The Hour of Revenge: Holocaust Survivors and Their Search for Revenge and Retribution (2025). In 2024, she was awarded the Dan David Prize.