Dr. Joanna Sliwa is Historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany where she also administers the Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies and the University Partnership in Holocaust Studies. She is the author of the award-winning book, Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust (Rutgers University Press, 2021), co-author (with Elizabeth B. White) of The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust (Simon and Schuster, 2024), and co-editor (with Christine Schmidt and Elizabeth Anthony) of the forthcoming Older Jews and the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press). She taught Holocaust history and Jewish history at Rutgers University and Kean University and served as a faculty advisor for a teacher training program on the Holocaust at Rutgers. She previously worked at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.