Karolina Panz, PhD, is a sociologist and a member of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research. Her research interests are Jewish life and the Holocaust in the Polish province, with a special focus on the microhistory of Jews and the history of Polish–Jewish relations in the Podhale region, where she lives and volunteers in the People not Numbers Project.
Her dissertation, which concerned the fate of Nowy Targ Jews before and during the Holocaust, was awarded the first prize in the Majer Balaban Competition for the best MA and PhD works on Jews and Israel held by the Jewish Historical Institute (2020) and received the first prize in the 8th Edition of the Inka Brodzka-Wald Competition for the best dissertation on modernity in the humanities. Among her most recent publications are: “Nowy Targ County” in Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking, eds., Night without End. The Fate of Jews in German-Occupied Poland (Indiana University Press, 2022); “The Poles Are Taking Over All of Rabka: A Microhistory of Ethnic Cleansing” in Anna Wylegała, Sabina Rutar and Małgorzata Łukianow, eds., No Neighbors’Lands in Postwar Europe. Vanishing Others (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and “Rescue and Smuggling Networks in the Polish-Slovak Borderland during the Holocaust” in Eliyana R. Adler and Natalia Aleksiun eds., Entanglements of War: Social Networks during the Holocaust (Yad Vashem, 2022).