Joanna Beata Michlic

JOANNA BEATA MICHLIC is an author and an internationally acclaimed social and cultural historian specializing in the history of the Holocaust and its memory in Europe, East European Jewish childhood, rescue of Jews, and antisemitism and nationalism in Europe. Among her major book publications on antisemitism and memorialization of the Holocaust are: Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, (translated into Polish in 2015 and nominated for the Best History Book of Kazimierz Moczarski Award 2016 in Poland; Hebrew translation, with new epilogue, by Yad Vashem Institute, 2021), Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe, co-edited with John-Paul Himka (Lincoln, NUP, 2012). Among her major book publications on Jewish childhood during the Holocaust and its aftermath, and children war and genocide are a singled co-edited Jewish Family 1939 –Present: History, Representation, and Memory, Brandeis University Press/NEUP, January 2017); Piętno Zagłady: Wojenna i powojenna historia oraz pamięć żydowskich dzieci ocalałych w Polsce” (Warsaw, ZIH, 2020) and coedited with Yuliya von Saal and Anna Ulrich, Childhood During War and Genocide: Agency, Survival and Representation, European Holocaust Studies, vol. 5, Spring 2024