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Justyna Kowalska-Leder Author

Justyna Kowalska-Leder is an assistant professor in the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. Her main field of interests are Polish memory of the Holocaust, Polish-Jewish relations during World War II and personal documents written by Jews during the German Occupation.

She has also won the FNP Award of Excellence for a monograph, Foundation for Polish Science (2009) and the Majer Bałaban Medal of Distinction for the best doctoral dissertation, organised by the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw (2010).