Joanna Sliwa

Dr Joanna Sliwa is an historian at the Conference
on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
(Claims Conference) in New York, where she
also administers academic programmes. She
previously worked at the American Jewish Joint
Distribuion Committee, and at the Museum
of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to
the Holocaust. She has taught Holocaust
and Jewish history at Kean University and at
Rutgers University and has served as a historical
consultant and researcher, including for the PBS
film In the Name of Their Mothers: The Story of
Irena Sendler. Her first book, Jewish Childhood
in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust
won the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize awarded
by the Wiener Holocaust Library. She lives in
Linden, New Jersey.