Agency and Displacement of Ethnic Polish and Jewish Families After World War II

Anna Cichopek-Gajraj is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on Polish-Jewish relations, antisemitism, and ethnic violence in Poland and in Polish-Jewish diaspora after the Holocaust. Her book, Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia in 1944–1948 (Cambridge University Press, 2014) was a Finalist of the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award and a recipient of the 2015 Barbara Heldt Prize Honorable Mention. Her first book “Pogrom Żydów w Krakowie 11 sierpnia 1945 r,” a case study of the pogrom in Kraków in August 1945, was published by the Jewish Historical Institute in 2000. She is a recipient of the 2016 Shofar Zakhor Award from the Phoenix Holocaust Survivors’ Association for “exhibiting and carrying the work of Holocaust education, Holocaust remembrance, and community interaction.” Email: acichope@asu.edu