Barbara Engelking
Dr. Barbara Engelking (born April 22, 1962) is a Polish psychologist and sociologist specializing in Holocaust studies.[1][2] Dr. Engelking is the founder and director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw,[1][2] who has written a series of books about the Holocaust in Poland.[1][2]
Education
[change | change source]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.[1]
Career
[change | change source]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.[3]
Since 2014, she has been chair of Poland's International Auschwitz Council.[4] Between November 2015 and April 2016, Dr. Engelking was the Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Mandel Center in Washington, D.C.[1]
Incidents
[change | change source]In February 2021, Prof. Jan Grabowski and Dr. Engelking were ordered by a Polish court to apologize to an 81-year old Polish citizen who sued them for libel over a book in which they discussed the complicity of Catholic Poles in the Holocaust.[5] In August 2021, a judge in the Warsaw Court of Appeal overturned the ruling.[6]
Selected works
[change | change source]- Engelking, B. & Paulsson, G. S. Holocaust and Memory: The Experience of the Holocaust and its Consequences, 2001.
- Engelking, B. & Leociak, J. The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City, 2009.[7]
- Engelking, B. Such a Beautiful Sunny Day: Jews Seeking Refuge in the Polish Countryside, 1942–1945, Yad Vashem, 2016.[8]
- Grabowski, J. & Engelking, B. Night without End: The Fate of Jews in German-Occupied Poland, Indiana University Press, 2022.[9]
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Dr. Barbara Engelking". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). Retrieved March 8, 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Heller, Aron (16 March 2017). "Polish historian's book on killing of Jews exposes raw nerve". The Times of Israel. Associated Press.
- ↑ "Barbara Engelking". Polish Center for Holocaust Research. Archived from the original on March 2, 2019.
- ↑
- Petelewicz, Jakub (April 25, 2016). "Partner in EHRI: the Polish Center for Holocaust Research". European Holocaust Research Infrastructure. Archived from the original on 20 June 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
- "IAC Members". Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. Archived from the original on May 28, 2019.
- https://www.holocaustresearch.pl/index.php?mod=news&show=252&template=print [bare URL]
- ↑
- "Historians ordered to apologize in controversial Polish Holocaust libel case". ABC News. February 9, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
The libel case involves a long dead Polish elder accused of Nazi collaboration.
- "Fears for Polish Holocaust research as historians ordered to apologise". The Guardian. February 9, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
- "Polish court ruling on Holocaust libel is 'very disturbing,' historians say". Jewish Insider. February 10, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
The ruling against academics Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski is the first under Poland's new 2018 libel law
- "Statement on Court Case Against Professor Jan Grabowski - 10.02.2021". University of Ottawa. February 10, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
- "Polish Court Orders Scholars to Apologize Over Holocaust Study". The New York Times. February 11, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
- "Historians ordered to apologize in controversial Polish Holocaust libel case". ABC News. February 9, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
- ↑
- "Polish appeals court dismisses libel complaint against Holocaust book". Euronews. August 16, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
- "Polish appeals court dismisses claims against Holocaust book historians". Reuters. August 16, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
- "Polish appeals court overturns ruling against Holocaust historians". The Guardian. August 16, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
Case has raised questions about freedom to research Poland's wartime past
- "Polish appeals court dismisses claims against Holocaust book historians". Euractiv. August 17, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
An appeals court ruled that two historians accused of tarnishing the memory of a Polish villager in a book about the Holocaust need not apologise, overturning a lower court ruling that raised fears about freedom of academic research.
- "Polish Holocaust researchers accused of defamation will give Cleveringa Lecture". Universiteit Leiden. October 12, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
- ↑ Marrus, Michael R. (August 28, 2009). "Review: The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City, by Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on June 14, 2019.
- ↑ Rossolinski-Liebe, Grzegorz (18 April 2012). Sammelrezension: Polnische Beteiligung am Holocaust [Collective review: Polish participation in the Holocaust] (in German). ISBN 9788393220205. Retrieved 1 December 2018 – via H-Soz-Kult.
- ↑ Grabowski, Jan; Engelking, Barbara; Skibińska, Alina; Szurek, Jean-Charles; Zapalec, Anna; Panz, Karolina; Frydel, Tomasz; Swałtek-Niewińska, Dagmara (2022). "Night without End: The Fate of Jews in German-Occupied Poland". Combined Academic Publishers. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253062864. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
Series: Studies in Antisemitism. 546 pages, 152.00 x 229.00 mm, 73 b&w photos, 8 maps, 1 chart, 35 b&w tables.
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