Historian and archivist (Jagiellonian University), graduate of Gender Studies at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and social activist. Professionally, she is a training and education coordinator at the Centre of Community Archives. She conducts webinars and training courses, and coordinates meetings at cultural institutions interested in starting to create/support social archives. She teaches social archivists how to conduct oral history interviews and how to describe, compile and make them available online on the www.zbioryspoleczne.pl .
Previously, she worked at the KARTA Centre Foundation, where she coordinated oral history projects, such as ‘Poles in the East’ and ‘Eastern Archive,’ and conducted training courses on recording accounts. She has also participated in many other oral history projects, including ‘Oral Histories of Polish Architecture,’ ‘On the Tatar Trail – Documentation and Popularisation of Tatar Traditions and Culture in the Podlasie Province,’ and ‘Oral History of the LGBT+ Community in Poland.’
In her daily life, she is passionate about old films, tennis and literature.
Social anthropologist affiliated with the Institute of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University, she is also involved in social activism through non-governmental organisations. She is the co-founder and president of the Krakow-based Good Will Foundation (Fundacja Dobra Wola) and is also active in the Ukrainian Oral History Association. She has completed over a dozen oral history projects in Poland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Sweden. Her ‘third eye’ is the camera lens, and she has co-created 11 films based on oral history. She supports the development of social archiving in Ukraine and the documentation of war experiences – she co-founded the international initiative of Summer Institutes ‘Witnessing the War in Ukraine’. She treats oral history primarily as a way of learning about the diversity of social worlds – by listening carefully to individual experiences, everyday stories and personal perspectives that often do not fit into official narratives and academic schemes.
He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Civitas University in Warsaw. Previously, he worked in the Research Department of the Remembrance and Future Centre and the Research Department of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. He has recorded interviews on the post-war history of Lower Silesia and the experiences of the Jewish population in Poland after the Second World War. Recently, he has been researching the history of chemical factories in the Polish People’s Republic and the ecological disaster in the Western Sudetes in the 1980s.
Member of the editorial board of the Wrocław Oral History Yearbook (WRHM). In oral history, he values polyphony, expression, emotions and encounters with other people.
In his free time, he explores Lower Silesia, especially the Karkonosze and the Izera Mountains (sometimes also on the Czech side).
Social and oral historian. In 2021 he received a PhD in history from the University of Augsburg and the University of Warsaw for his dissertation about Polish children born of war (published as “Niedopowiedziane biografie. Polskie dzieci urodzone z powodu wojny”, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, 2022). Currently affiliated with the University of Warsaw where he conducts research project on children born to former female forced laborers. Author of numerous articles in oral history as well as in social history (https://uw.academia.edu/JakubGaleziowski). Serving as a Central and Eastern Europe specialist for the Children Born of War Project (Oslo). Co-founder of the Polish Oral History Association and its President (2009-2011 and 2022–2025). Council member of International Oral History Association (2023–2025) and its Vice-President (2025-2028). Head of Oral History Commission by the Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Editor of the “Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej”, a Polish academic journal devoted to oral history. Co-author of the Ethical Recommendations of the Polish Oral History Association; he runs trainings and workshops on recording, processing, and analysing interviews and ethical issues related to oral history. Co-organizes the Oral History Seminars.
Philosopher and cultural studies scholar by education (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin), she is a graduate of Polish-Jewish studies at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2005, she has been professionally associated with the Oral History Workshop of the ‘Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN’ Centre in Lublin. Between 2013 and 2022, she coordinated the Studio’s activities. She co-created, participated in and coordinated many thematic projects aimed at collecting oral histories, making recorded material available and popularising oral history. The most important of these are: ‘Ludwik Fleck in Lublin’, ‘Saving from Oblivion – Krystyna Modrzewska,’ ‘History Locked in an Apartment. A Story about the Polish People’s Republic,’ ‘Lublin. Memory of the Holocaust,’ ‘Operation Reinhardt – in the Circle of the Holocaust,’ and ‘Oral History Archive – compiling and making the most valuable resources available online.’ She is the co-author of the book “Personal Baggage. After March” (together with Dorota Barczak-Perfikowska, Grażyna Latos, Elżbieta Strzałkowska and Agata Tuszyńska) and the author of a selection of accounts for the book “Jan Karski in Other People’s Memories”.
In her recorded conversations, she is particularly interested in Jewish biographies, the anthropology of everyday life, and memories of important but forgotten figures associated with Lublin and the Lublin region. In oral history, she most values the opportunity to meet other people and journey together into the past. Each account is a unique map of memory that must be preserved for future generations.
Marcin is an assistant professor in the Department of Historical Anthropology and Theory of History in Institute of History at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. One of the major oral history projects he has been involved in was ‘Grandfather from the Wehrmacht’ which attracted considerable public and media attention. Currently he is working on a research project devoted to the labour oral history – the experience of working on the Polish railways.
What he likes most about oral history is that it allows him to explore so many ideas about moving through life and ways of approaching ageing (at least some of which he would like to use himself one day).
Audit Committee (2025-2028)
- Ewelina Gołębiowska (chairperson)
- Mariusz Bieciuk
- Tomas Pavlicek