Authors

Izabela Skórzyńska, PhD
Historian, she specializes in the didactics of history teaching and the history of memory. She works at the Institute of History at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Wojciech Olejniczak
Independent artist, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, initiator of the TRES Foundation.

Rafał Witkowski, PhD
Historian; focuses on the history of Wielkopolska and local Jews, staff member at the Institute of History at Adam Mickiewicz University.

Prof. Krzysztof Rzepa, PhD, UAM
A historian; he specializes in the general history of the 19th and 20th c. and the local history of Zbąszyń. A staff member at the Institute of History at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Prof. Jerzy Tomaszewski, PhD
A historian; specializes in the history of Polish Jews. For many years he has been a staff member of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.

Gertrud Pickhan PhD
Specializes in the modern history of East-Central Europe. A staff member of the Institute for East-European Studies of the Free University of Berlin.

Bonnie M. Harris PhD
Her research focuses on the memory of the Holocaust, PhD Program for Public History, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Witold W. Mędykowski PhD
Specializes in the history of Jews in Poland. A staff member of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; he cooperates with the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

Ottlie Rimpel
She was a victim of the deportation, she survived the Holocaust

Willi Najman
He was a victim of the deportation, he survived the Holocaust.

George Hastings
Son of Eva Szurek, who was the victim of the deportation.

Erwin Schenkelbach
Born in Drohobych, a photograph and writer. He currently lives and works in Jerusalem.

Paweł Urbanowicz
The Presisent of ”Nasz Dom” Foundation (this foundation works nowadays on the area of railway station in Zbąszyń).

Lothar Quinkenstein PhD
Germanist and ethnologist (Freiburg University), a poet. Since 1999 a lecturer at the School of German at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Sabine Würich
Independent artist – photographer, author of many social and artistic projects; works in Berlin.

Wojciech Walczak
Psychologist, therapist of addictions.