Joanna Sliwa
@joannasliwa24.bsky.social
Historian, Holocaust & Jewish history. Book author, co-author, co-editor: Jewish Childhood in Kraków | Counterfeit Countess | Older Jews and the Holocaust. Administers academic programs at a Jewish NGO. www.counterfeitcountess.com and www.joannasliwa.com
Jewish women resisters in the Warsaw Ghetto drive the history that @ehistorian.bsky.social tells in her new @harpercollins.bsky.social book. It was an honor to write a blurb for it. You will not want to put down this book. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
October 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Jewish women resisters in the Warsaw Ghetto drive the history that @ehistorian.bsky.social tells in her new @harpercollins.bsky.social book. It was an honor to write a blurb for it. You will not want to put down this book. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
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📚 Our book published with Central European University Press (an imprint of @amsterdamupress.bsky.social ) has finally arrived and it looks really cool😀!
#newbook #academicsky #skystorians #JewishStudies 📖 🗃️
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
#newbook #academicsky #skystorians #JewishStudies 📖 🗃️
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
October 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
📚 Our book published with Central European University Press (an imprint of @amsterdamupress.bsky.social ) has finally arrived and it looks really cool😀!
#newbook #academicsky #skystorians #JewishStudies 📖 🗃️
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
#newbook #academicsky #skystorians #JewishStudies 📖 🗃️
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
This is a groundbreaking discovery that could bring researchers closer to learning about the survival and whereabouts of the prewar Lublin Yeshiva books, a collection of immense historical and religious importance. Via @thejerusalempost.bsky.social www.jpost.com/history/arti...
Hidden cache reveals 1.5-ton haul of Lublin yeshiva books | The Jerusalem Post
The researchers removed about 40 to 50 sacks—roughly 1.5 tons—from a locked basement near the Nożyk Synagogue.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is a groundbreaking discovery that could bring researchers closer to learning about the survival and whereabouts of the prewar Lublin Yeshiva books, a collection of immense historical and religious importance. Via @thejerusalempost.bsky.social www.jpost.com/history/arti...
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If you are in Europe and want to pre-order People without History are Dust, you can do that here:
there is also a 30% discount coupon: FFS25
mngbookshop.co.uk/978148755711...
there is also a 30% discount coupon: FFS25
mngbookshop.co.uk/978148755711...
People Without History Are Dust
Queerness remains one of the most stigmatized and overlooked aspects of Holocaust history, often erased due to the lingering homophobia of survivors. People ...
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September 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If you are in Europe and want to pre-order People without History are Dust, you can do that here:
there is also a 30% discount coupon: FFS25
mngbookshop.co.uk/978148755711...
there is also a 30% discount coupon: FFS25
mngbookshop.co.uk/978148755711...
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“An in-house study, published last year, failed to uncover Weleda’s role in human experiments.“
I am not surprised!
www.jta.org/2025/09/12/g...
I am not surprised!
www.jta.org/2025/09/12/g...
Cosmetics firm Weleda to examine Nazi ties amid revelation of its role in Dachau experiments - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
An in-house study of the firm's Nazi ties published last year did not uncover its role in human experiments.
www.jta.org
September 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
“An in-house study, published last year, failed to uncover Weleda’s role in human experiments.“
I am not surprised!
www.jta.org/2025/09/12/g...
I am not surprised!
www.jta.org/2025/09/12/g...
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We're hiring!
EHRI-UK Project Assistant - remote work w/ some travel @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Part time (0.4-0.5FTE depending on candidate). Initially 9 months but anticipating extension. Perfect for #PhD students - spread the word! Closing date 26/09/25
wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/s...
EHRI-UK Project Assistant - remote work w/ some travel @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Part time (0.4-0.5FTE depending on candidate). Initially 9 months but anticipating extension. Perfect for #PhD students - spread the word! Closing date 26/09/25
wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/s...
Work With Us - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Find out about our employment opportunities
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September 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
We're hiring!
EHRI-UK Project Assistant - remote work w/ some travel @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Part time (0.4-0.5FTE depending on candidate). Initially 9 months but anticipating extension. Perfect for #PhD students - spread the word! Closing date 26/09/25
wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/s...
EHRI-UK Project Assistant - remote work w/ some travel @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Part time (0.4-0.5FTE depending on candidate). Initially 9 months but anticipating extension. Perfect for #PhD students - spread the word! Closing date 26/09/25
wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/s...
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Job! Come to Charleston and be my boss. We’re a department with many strengths and great support to do more. Please pass this along to help us find our new leader!
Director of Jewish Studies Program (and Associate Professor or Professor)
The College of Charleston seeks a dynamic scholar, instructor, and leader at the associate or full professor rank to become Director of the Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program, a premier program of ...
jobs.cofc.edu
September 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Job! Come to Charleston and be my boss. We’re a department with many strengths and great support to do more. Please pass this along to help us find our new leader!
Polska wersja #CounterfeitCountess w księgarniach od 14.10. Kiedy myślisz, że już wiemy tak wiele o historii II wojny światowej i Holokaustu, to #FałszywaHrabina pokaże ile jeszcze jest do odkrycia. www.rebis.com.pl/pl/book-fals...
August 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Polska wersja #CounterfeitCountess w księgarniach od 14.10. Kiedy myślisz, że już wiemy tak wiele o historii II wojny światowej i Holokaustu, to #FałszywaHrabina pokaże ile jeszcze jest do odkrycia. www.rebis.com.pl/pl/book-fals...
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So over the next few days I want to tell you a little bit about my new @oxfordacademic.bsky.social book about looted art. The book is about art so there are many great pictures! A very short, mini-thread 👇
August 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
So over the next few days I want to tell you a little bit about my new @oxfordacademic.bsky.social book about looted art. The book is about art so there are many great pictures! A very short, mini-thread 👇
How does age affect people’s experiences in times of humanitarian crisis? This forthcoming book coedited by @ceschmidt.bsky.social, Betsy Anthony, and me explores the lives of #OlderJews before, during, and after the #Holocaust. wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814352052/
August 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
How does age affect people’s experiences in times of humanitarian crisis? This forthcoming book coedited by @ceschmidt.bsky.social, Betsy Anthony, and me explores the lives of #OlderJews before, during, and after the #Holocaust. wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814352052/
Curious about the history of Krakow Jews beyond the Schindler story? My @rutgersupress.bsky.social #JewishChildhoodinKrakow is 50% off ($16.48) with free shipping in the US if purchased by August 31 with code RSUMMER50. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/jewish-child...
Jewish Childhood in Kraków - Rutgers University Press
Winner of the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize from the Wiener Holocaust LibraryJewish Childhood in Kraków is the first book to tell the history of Kraków in t...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org
August 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Curious about the history of Krakow Jews beyond the Schindler story? My @rutgersupress.bsky.social #JewishChildhoodinKrakow is 50% off ($16.48) with free shipping in the US if purchased by August 31 with code RSUMMER50. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/jewish-child...
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🇮🇹 CALLING ITALIAN NATIVE (OR NEAR-NATIVE) SPEAKERS 🇮🇹
Are you fluent in Italian?
Join me in transcribing & editing Morais’s Italian materials—or share with your Italian-speaking students, friends & colleagues. It’s easy & fun! 🎉
Are you fluent in Italian?
Join me in transcribing & editing Morais’s Italian materials—or share with your Italian-speaking students, friends & colleagues. It’s easy & fun! 🎉
August 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
🇮🇹 CALLING ITALIAN NATIVE (OR NEAR-NATIVE) SPEAKERS 🇮🇹
Are you fluent in Italian?
Join me in transcribing & editing Morais’s Italian materials—or share with your Italian-speaking students, friends & colleagues. It’s easy & fun! 🎉
Are you fluent in Italian?
Join me in transcribing & editing Morais’s Italian materials—or share with your Italian-speaking students, friends & colleagues. It’s easy & fun! 🎉
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and you, dear readers, you can pre-order the book here: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
People without History are Dust - University of Toronto Press
People Without History are Dust explores same-sex desire in the Holocaust, telling the gripping stories of queer Jews that have been long silenced by the homophobia of survivors.
utppublishing.com
August 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
and you, dear readers, you can pre-order the book here: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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We heard that a certain high-profile lawyer was having a bit of a "pierogi problem" himself...
Coincidentally, we have a new book that looks at the reinvention of Polish cuisine. Stop by our #ASA2025 booth and check it out!
Coincidentally, we have a new book that looks at the reinvention of Polish cuisine. Stop by our #ASA2025 booth and check it out!
August 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We heard that a certain high-profile lawyer was having a bit of a "pierogi problem" himself...
Coincidentally, we have a new book that looks at the reinvention of Polish cuisine. Stop by our #ASA2025 booth and check it out!
Coincidentally, we have a new book that looks at the reinvention of Polish cuisine. Stop by our #ASA2025 booth and check it out!
Interesting take on the role of photographers at sites of mass destruction (here @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social), grand projects (by whom? for whom? for what?), and of photography's potential to help viewers understand complex historical events. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A new coffee-table book shows one thing: celebrity artists should not be allowed near Auschwitz | Agata Pyzik
We won’t deepen our understanding of the Holocaust with vanity projects like Juergen Teller’s misguided new work, says author Agata Pyzik
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Interesting take on the role of photographers at sites of mass destruction (here @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social), grand projects (by whom? for whom? for what?), and of photography's potential to help viewers understand complex historical events. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A new historical and genealogical resource is available from @geshergalicia.org: transcribed and searchable name lists of Jewish orphans in Galicia after World War I who received JDC help, and of the children's parents. The records are held at YIVO. www.geshergalicia.org/projects/the...
August 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A new historical and genealogical resource is available from @geshergalicia.org: transcribed and searchable name lists of Jewish orphans in Galicia after World War I who received JDC help, and of the children's parents. The records are held at YIVO. www.geshergalicia.org/projects/the...
Roger Cohen on the anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre: “(…) hatred is an elixir, a potent political bomb, a seductive answer to the banality of life(…)It is always available to the nationalist demagogue ready to identify scapegoats, promise vengeance and whip a pliant population into a frenzy.”
Srebrenica, a Massacre Foretold, Still Casts Its Shadow
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July 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Roger Cohen on the anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre: “(…) hatred is an elixir, a potent political bomb, a seductive answer to the banality of life(…)It is always available to the nationalist demagogue ready to identify scapegoats, promise vengeance and whip a pliant population into a frenzy.”
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📢 Newly digitised and accessible online!
Researchers can now access a digitised collection relating to the fate of Roma and Sinti under the Nazis. The collection was gathered following research into Nazi anti-Gypsy policies and the treatment of Roma and Sinti during the Nazi period buff.ly/J3iXPll
Researchers can now access a digitised collection relating to the fate of Roma and Sinti under the Nazis. The collection was gathered following research into Nazi anti-Gypsy policies and the treatment of Roma and Sinti during the Nazi period buff.ly/J3iXPll
July 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
📢 Newly digitised and accessible online!
Researchers can now access a digitised collection relating to the fate of Roma and Sinti under the Nazis. The collection was gathered following research into Nazi anti-Gypsy policies and the treatment of Roma and Sinti during the Nazi period buff.ly/J3iXPll
Researchers can now access a digitised collection relating to the fate of Roma and Sinti under the Nazis. The collection was gathered following research into Nazi anti-Gypsy policies and the treatment of Roma and Sinti during the Nazi period buff.ly/J3iXPll
Love seeing readers reading @simonbooks.bsky.social #CounterfeitCountess! Thank you, @jvirgil.bsky.social for sharing your book picks!
Currently reading @thevogelman.bsky.social’s Artful AI — loved his interview on @shobroken.bsky.social
And: @joannasliwa24.bsky.social Counterfeit Countess — came across this during my grad program at Kean’s Holocaust Resource Center.
And: @joannasliwa24.bsky.social Counterfeit Countess — came across this during my grad program at Kean’s Holocaust Resource Center.
June 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Love seeing readers reading @simonbooks.bsky.social #CounterfeitCountess! Thank you, @jvirgil.bsky.social for sharing your book picks!
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This web-based #VR experience exploring the events of #Kristallnacht through Dr. Charlotte Knobloch's testimony, which brought together the @claims-conference.bsky.social,
@uscshoahfoundation.bsky.social, @unesco.org, Meta, and #XR company makemepulse, will be presented at our Expo.
#ldml_25
@uscshoahfoundation.bsky.social, @unesco.org, Meta, and #XR company makemepulse, will be presented at our Expo.
#ldml_25
June 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This web-based #VR experience exploring the events of #Kristallnacht through Dr. Charlotte Knobloch's testimony, which brought together the @claims-conference.bsky.social,
@uscshoahfoundation.bsky.social, @unesco.org, Meta, and #XR company makemepulse, will be presented at our Expo.
#ldml_25
@uscshoahfoundation.bsky.social, @unesco.org, Meta, and #XR company makemepulse, will be presented at our Expo.
#ldml_25
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At the annual Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies Workshop, alumnus Dr. Dallas Michelbacher (2014-2016), an Applied Researcher at the @ushmm.bsky.social, an expert on the Holocaust in Romania and the author of the book "Jewish Forced Labor in Romania, 1940-1944," gave the keynote.
June 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
At the annual Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies Workshop, alumnus Dr. Dallas Michelbacher (2014-2016), an Applied Researcher at the @ushmm.bsky.social, an expert on the Holocaust in Romania and the author of the book "Jewish Forced Labor in Romania, 1940-1944," gave the keynote.
And the winner of the 2024 Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America is… @jholc.bsky.social for her @brandeispress.bsky.social book “The Weavers of Trautenau.” Ceremony at the Polish Consulate in NYC. Congratulations!
June 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
And the winner of the 2024 Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America is… @jholc.bsky.social for her @brandeispress.bsky.social book “The Weavers of Trautenau.” Ceremony at the Polish Consulate in NYC. Congratulations!
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The annual workshop of the Claims Conference #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies brought early-career scholars together to discuss their projects. It also allowed them to connect with former Fellows, including those currently working at the @ushmm.bsky.social. #HolocaustEducation
June 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The annual workshop of the Claims Conference #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies brought early-career scholars together to discuss their projects. It also allowed them to connect with former Fellows, including those currently working at the @ushmm.bsky.social. #HolocaustEducation
Jacy wyborcy i kraj, taki nowy prezydent. Ponad 50% Polek i Polaków NIE wybrało postępu, poszanowania człowieka, godnego życia i kompetencji do sprawowania urzędu. Za to zakrólował nacjonalizm, nienawiśc, zaściankowośc, pogarda, huliganizm, korupcja i oszustwa. Oto Polska w XXI wieku.
Losing presidential candidate Rafał Trzaskowski has congratulated Karol Nawrocki on his victory.
"I fought for us to build a strong, safe, fair and empathetic Poland together...Thank you to everyone who voted for such a Poland...And I'm sorry that I failed to convince the majority of citizens."
"I fought for us to build a strong, safe, fair and empathetic Poland together...Thank you to everyone who voted for such a Poland...And I'm sorry that I failed to convince the majority of citizens."
Wyniki wyborów prezydenckich. "Przepraszam, że nie zwyciężyliśmy wspólnie"
"Gratuluję Karolowi Nawrockiemu wygranej w wyborach prezydenckich. Ta wygrana zobowiązuje, szczególnie w tak trudnych czasach. Szczególnie przy tak
wydarzenia.interia.pl
June 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Jacy wyborcy i kraj, taki nowy prezydent. Ponad 50% Polek i Polaków NIE wybrało postępu, poszanowania człowieka, godnego życia i kompetencji do sprawowania urzędu. Za to zakrólował nacjonalizm, nienawiśc, zaściankowośc, pogarda, huliganizm, korupcja i oszustwa. Oto Polska w XXI wieku.
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Thanks so much to the @claims-conference.bsky.social for inviting me to provide feedback to some amazing early career scholar/fellows this week.
It was great to see that our field is in such good hands!
It was great to see that our field is in such good hands!
May 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Thanks so much to the @claims-conference.bsky.social for inviting me to provide feedback to some amazing early career scholar/fellows this week.
It was great to see that our field is in such good hands!
It was great to see that our field is in such good hands!