Maria Ferenc received her PhD from the University of Warsaw. She is a Research Fellow at the University of Wrocław and is working on a book discussing the biography and memory of Mordechai Anielewicz.
Ferenc has received various fellowships, including from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Museum (2022), Fondation Memoire de la Shoah (2020-2022), and Yad Vashem (2016).
Ferenc coordinated the research project The Encyclopedia of the Warsaw Ghetto at the Jewish Historical Institute (2018-2024) and co-edited several volumes of documents at the Ringelblum Archive. Her book, based on her doctoral dissertation, “Everyone asks what will become of us.” Inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto and the News of the War and the Holocaust, won and was shortlisted for many prizes and is currently being translated into English. Her other publications include articles in Radical History Review, Zagłada Żydów, Annales de Demographie Historique, Media History, and Yalkut Moreshet.