Barbara Engelking

Dr. Barbara Engelking (born April 22, 1962) is a Polish psychologist and sociologist specializing in Holocaust studies. Dr. Engelking is the founder and director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, who has written a series of books about the Holocaust in Poland.

Education

She received an MA in psychology from the University of Warsaw in 1988 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Career

Since 1993, Dr. 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. Since 2014, she has been chair of Poland's . 

  Between November 2015 and April 2016, Dr. Engelking was the Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Mandel Center in Washington, D.C.

Incidents

In February 2021, Profs. Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking were sued in a Polish court over a book in which they discussed the role of Catholic Poles in the Holocaust. 



  In August 2021, the Warsaw Court of Appeal dismissed the lawsuit against them. 





Selected works

 Grabowski, J. & Engelking, B. Night without End: The Fate of Jews in German-Occupied Poland, Indiana University Press, 2022.
 Engelking, B. Such a Beautiful Sunny Day: Jews Seeking Refuge in the Polish Countryside, 1942–1945, Yad Vashem, 2016.
 Engelking, B. & Leociak, J. The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City, 2009.
 Engelking, B. & Paulsson, G. S. Holocaust and Memory: The Experience of the Holocaust and its Consequences, 2001.

Related pages

 Shira Klein
 Jan Grabowski
 Izabella Tabarovsky
 Holocaust uniqueness debate

References

Category:Polish people
Category:History of Poland
Category:Historical studies