Barbara Engelking
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Barbara Engelking | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 April 1962 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Polish Academy of Sciences University of Warsaw |
| Academic work | |
| Era | 20th century |
| Institutions | Polish Center for Holocaust Research |
| Main interests | Holocaust in Poland |
| Notable works | Such a Beautiful Sunny Day: Jews Seeking Refuge in the Polish Countryside, 1942–1945 The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City Dalej jest noc (Night Without End) (editor) |
Barbara Engelking (born 22 April 1962) is a Polish psychologist and sociologist specializing in Holocaust studies.[1][2] The founder and director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, she is the author or editor of several works on the Holocaust in Poland.
Born in Warsaw, Engelking received an MA in psychology from the University of Warsaw in 1988 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the Polish Academy of Sciences, also in Warsaw,[1] for a thesis on The Experience of the Holocaust and its Consequences in Autobiographical Accounts (1993).[3]
Since 1993, Engelking has been an assistant then associate professor at the Polish Center for Holocaust Research, part of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences.[3] Since 2014, she has been chair of Poland's International Auschwitz Council.[4][5] From November 2015 until April 2016, she was the Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Mandel Center in Washington, D.C.[1]