Ph.D. Łukasz Krzyżanowski
Biography
Historian and sociologist, assistant professor in the Department of History, University of Warsaw. He graduated from the Jagiellonian University and the University of Exeter. In 2015, he defended his doctorate at the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw. He has held scholarships from the Department of History, University of Oxford (2012, 2013, 2014–2015), the Yad Vashem Institute (2015), the Claims Conference (2011–2013), and the National Science Centre (2013–2014). His book “The House That Never Was” won the Radom Literary Award and the Klio Award, Third Degree, and was nominated for the Jerzy Giedroyc Award, the Jan Długosz Award, and the Kazimierz Moczarski Historical Award. He currently researches everyday life and power relations in rural communities of central Poland under German occupation and during the Holocaust.
Most important publications
Most important scholarly articles
“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.”, w: 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”, w: European History Quarterly, vol. 48(1), 2018.