Finalist of the 23rd Polityka Science Awards
We are pleased to announce that dr Maria Ferenc from the Research Department of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute and the Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław has become a finalist in the 23rd Edition of the Scientific Awards of the Polityka. She is a researcher dealing academically with the social and cultural history of Polish Jews during the Holocaust. This is the next time she has made it to the top of the prestigious Polityka Awards, having previously been honoured in the 2021 History Awards. On the University of Wrocław website, readers may have previously come across information that Ferenc was also previously successful in receiving a grant in the SONATINA 7 competition.
Maria Ferenc – a graduate of the College of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw. Researcher of Jewish history during the Holocaust. Editor of 3 volumes of documents from the Ringelblum Archive, author of several publications on the Holocaust. Scholarship holder of, among others, Yad Vashem, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Fondation Memoire de la Shoah, as well as a recipient of the Ministry of Science scholarship for outstanding young scientists (2020-2023). She participated in the NPRH Grant for the full edition of the Ringelblum Archive in Polish and was a coordinator in the NPRH Grant for the preparation of the Encyclopedia of the Warsaw Ghetto. Since 2017, she has been associated with the Research Department of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.
