Ph.D. Lukasz Krzyzanowski
Biography
Consultation
Historian and sociologist, assistant professor in the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. He graduated from Jagiellonian University and the University of Exeter. In 2015, he obtained a doctorate in Social Sciences from the University of Warsaw (doctoral advisor: prof. Marcin Kula). He has held scholarships from the History Faculty, University of Oxford (2012, 2013, 2014–2015), Yad Vashem Institute (2015), Claims Conference (2011–2013), the National Science Centre (2013–2014). He was elected Oliver Smithies Visiting Research Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford (2026-2027) and a Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College (2027). His first book Ghost Citizens: Jewish Return to a Postwar City (Harvard University Press, 2020) examined Holocaust survivors returning home immediately after WWII. His current book project employs sociology and social psychology to better understand the course of the Holocaust and social relations within rural communities of German-occupied central Poland.
Most important publications
Most important scholarly articles
„Between Rocks and a Hard Place: Village Heads in Polish Villages during the German Occupation and the Holocaust”, in: Slavik Review, Volume 84 – Issue 1 – Spring 2025.
“Holocaust Survivors and the Restitution of Jewish Private Property in Two Polish Cities, 1945-1948,” in: Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 35, issue 3, Winter 2021.
„’To było między pierwszą a drugą’. Zabójstwo Róży Berger podczas pogrom w Krakowie 11 sierpnia 1945 r.”, in: Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, tom 15, 2019.
„An Ordinary Polish Town: The Homecoming of Holocaust Survivors to Kalisz in the Immediate Aftermath of the War”, in: European History Quarterly, vol. 48(1), 2018.