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The Association Board works on an honorary basis. Its members not only supervise the activities of the Association, represent it and set new goals, but mostly spend their time and energy on trying to reach its aim, which is preserving the Jewish heritage in Poland. Thanks to their passion the Association can be more and more successful.

Aiming for transparency of all activities of the Association, we have created an internal operating committee
– the Audit Committee. The members are drawn from members of the Association with active and passive suffrage. One of the most important duties of the Committee is to supervise the Association Board, take care of finance transparency, thriftiness and providing optimal allocation of the Association’s assets.

The Grants Committee of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute announces yearly grant competitions for programmes connected with preserving and commemorating the history and culture of Polish Jews and their contribution into the world culture.

Members of the Grants Committee are chosen by the Association Board for a four year tenure. Members are representatives of the world of science and culture. Their tasks include providing a merit-based opinion on projects that apply for support. Additionally, the Committee supports beneficiaries with their projects, controls spending of grants and evaluates applications for sponsorships for the Association Board.

The Association’s team maintains ongoing communication with our donors, grantees and partners.

Bartosz Dymarek Director of Development

Involved with POLIN Museum and the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute since 2009, from the beginning as a member of the Development Department. As the director, he is responsible for coordinating the day-to-day operations of the department and cooperation with international partners and donors and strategic planning of fundraising priorities. Studied Cross-Cultural Psychology at […]

Agnieszka Dulęba-Wołodkiewicz Deputy Director of Development

Art Historian, Institute of Art History at University of Warsaw alumni. From 2015 to 2020 she worked at the Research Department of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Between 2017 and 2020 she was a project manager of the international Global Education Outreach Program, which mission was to support Polish-Jewish studies worldwide. […]

Anna Szcześniak Senior Development Specialist

Graduate of Hebrew and Iberian and Ibero-American Studies at the University of Warsaw. For the past 4 years she has been working at the Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland Foundation where, within foundation’s Taube Jewish Heritage Tours program, she has been preparing and coordinating programs for individuals and families following […]

Joanna Fikus Chairwoman of the Grants Committe

Graduate of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Warsaw. Coordinator of the core exhibition planning team at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Co-author of projects: “Oral History Programme” and “Polish Roots in Israel” documenting memories of Jews living in Poland and Israel. At the Museum she coordinated […]

dr Kamila Dąbrowska

Holder of a PhD degree in ethnology, expert in the field of anthropology of memory and Polish-Jewish relations. Author of several papers and a doctoral dissertation on individual and collective memory of Jews residing in the Lower Silesia region after the Second World War, as well as post-war history of the Jewish community in Poland. […]

Grzegorz Kołacz

Graduated from the Institute of History of the University of Warsaw under Professor Marcin Kula. Author of the book “Czasami trudno się bronić. Uwarunkowania postaw Żydów podczas okupacji hitlerowskiej w Polsce” [Sometimes it is hard to defend oneself. Determinants of Jewish attitudes in Nazi occupied Poland]. Since 2006 he has been involved in initiatives promoting […]

Prof. Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska

Literary scholar and professor at the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. In the years 2000-2011 she was head of the Department of Jewish Culture and History; author of many books and translator from English and Yiddish (including works by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Szolem Asz, Ojzer Warszawski, Jankew Gladsztejn, Mordechaj […]

Piotr Wiślicki President

Son of Alfred Wiślicki and Janina Królikowska (Kurzrok). A graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology. Since 2001 Member of Jewish Community of Warsaw. Since 2009 the Vice Chairman of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute (known as SŻIH) and Chairman of the organization since 2011. Member and one of the founders of a […]

Joanna Fikus Vice President

Marek Nowakowski Treasurer of the Board

Connected with Muranów since his youth. He graduated from the Finance and Banking Department of the Warsaw School of Economics; during the years 1992-1993 he studied at the Northumbria University in Newcastle upon-Tyne as the Know-How Fund fellow. Connected with publishing and retail bookselling right from the start of his professional career. In 1991 he […]

Marian Turski Member of the Board

Marian Turski, historian and journalist, has been the head of historical section of Polityka weekly since 1958. He is a member of the Main Board of the Association of Jewish Veterans and Victims of the Second World War, a President of the International Auschwitz Committee, a Member of the International Council of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State […]

dr Kamila Dąbrowska Member of the board

dr Zuzanna Hertzberg Member of the Board

Painter, author of installations and performative actions, artivist and educator. She deals with the subjects of memory and body, as well as issues related to the broadly defined concepts of identity and geopolitics. She received her PhD degree from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 2018, graduating under Professor Leon Tarasewicz. She completed her […]

Maciej Kozłowski Member of the Board

Writer, journalist, diplomat, political émigré, prisoner of conscience. Received his PhD degree in history from the Jagiellonian University. Author of numerous articles and books. Until 1990, he was editor of the “Tygodnik Powszechny” weekly. Since 1990, in the Polish diplomatic service. Between 1990 and 1994, he served as deputy chief of mission and then as […]

Jan Ordyński Secretary of the Board

Journalist. Born in Łódź, studied at the University of Łódź. He was also an animator of student culture in this city. For many years he was a journalist for “Rzeczpospolita” daily newspaper. Until 2016, he also worked with TVP and Polish Radio. He also worked with the Shalom Foundation. Currently, he is a member of […]

Agnieszka Markiewicz Member of the Board

Graduate of the Institute of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw. In 2017-2019, she was the director of the American Jewish Committee Central Europe office. Previously, for many years associated with, among others, Forum for Dialogue and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. Chairwoman of the Council of the Jewish Community Center in Warsaw. She […]

Prof. Dariusz Stola Member of the board

Professor Dariusz Stola is a historian at the Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. He has published ten books and more than 150 articles on the history of Polish-Jewish relations, the communist regime in Poland and international migrations in the 20th century, including: Nadzieja i Zagłada (Hope and the Holocaust, 1995); Kampania antysyjonistyczna […]

Kristof Zorde Member of the Board

An economist by education (1976 – Copenhagen University, 1979 – Copenhagen Business School), Doctor of Philosophy (2002 – University of Warsaw). In 1980-84 he managed a USD 4 billion securities portfolio for Baltica Insurance, Copenhagen. In the years 1985-1995 he was a partner in the Danish investment bank Sankt Annae Bank, responsible for international capital […]

Zbigniew Sztranc Chair of the Audit Committee

Zbigniew Sztranc graduated from the Institute of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw. He has 35 years of experience in banking and financial institutions, including managerial positions in Bank Handlowy w Warszawie SA, Citibank, Bank Gospodarki Żywnościowej, where he was responsible for bank guarantees and credit risk management, among others. Between 1993 and 2001 […]

Justyna Kobos Vice Chair of the Audit Committee

A marketing communication and public relations specialist, she has been involved with the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland since 2014. In 2016, she joined the Pietrucha Group, assuming the position of Communications Director. Earlier, she had spent 16 years working for the Kulczyk Investments Capital Group. As a member of the corporate […]

Robert Supeł Secretary of the Audit Committee

Graduate of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the Faculty of Precision Mechanics at the Warsaw University of Technology. In the years 1993 – 2007 he worked at the Reuters Agency, where in the last period of work he was the director of the agency’s representative offices in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia. In the […]

Maciej Antosik Member of the Audit Committee

Co-Founder and Director (2012–2015) of the American Friends of Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. Between 2016 and 2018, Vice-President and Finance Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, responsible for managing its Endowment Fund. Since 2019, as Chief Financial Officer of the St. Christopher Oncology Hospice Foundation, he has been responsible for the establishment and development of the foundation’s non-profit […]

Piotr Kowalik Member of the Audit Committee

Historian-teacher, graduate of the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the University of Wrocław and Postgraduate Studies in Early School Education at the University of Warsaw. Co-founder of the Lauder-Morasha Schools in Warsaw, long-term teacher and deputy director for the Jewish program of these institutions. Author of school curricula and textbooks for teaching Jewish culture […]

Michał Majewski COO

Graduate of the Institute of History, University of Warsaw, specializing in the history and culture of Jews in Poland. Since 2004, he has been cooperating with non-governmental organizations working for the intercultural dialogue. In the years 2009–2013 he was the curator of the gallery “On Jewish Street” (1918–1939) of the Core Exhibition of POLIN Museum […]

Elżbieta Kossowska Senior Fundraising Officer

She has been working in Department of Development of the Association since 2006, concentrating on fundraising for this institution. At the same time in the years 2007-2009 she participated in building the Educational Center in POLIN Museum and creating a research based program about Polish Righteous Among the Nations. She communicates with external partners of […]

Anna Moniewska Office Manager

Studied history at the University of Warsaw. Between 2002 and 2015 she was responsible for organising the work of a design office, where she was in charge of comprehensive investment services, budgeting, document management, project settlements and customer relations. Since 2016 she has been associated with the NGO sector as an author of programs combining […]

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