Nagroda Jana Karskiego i Poli Nireńskiej w 2012 r. dla ALINY SKIBIŃSKIEJ

20.07.2012 11:45:02

Kapituła nagrody Jana Karskiego i Poli Nireńskiej w składzie Prof. Jerzy Tomaszewski, Prof. Feliks Tych, Prof. Paweł Śpiewak (dyrektor Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego im. E. Ringelbluma), dr Jonathan Brent (dyrektor YIVO Institute for Jewish Research) oraz Marek Web (YIVO Institute, sekretarz kapituły nagrody) zdecydowała o uhonorowaniu tym zaszczytnym wyróżnieniem za rok 2012 ALINY SKIBIŃSKIEJ

SERDECZNIE GRATULUJEMY

Nagroda ustanowiona w 1992 r. przez Jana Karskiego wspólni z YIVO Institute for Jewish Research przyznawana jest autorom publikującym znaczące prace dokumentujące stosunki polsko-żydowskie a także wkład Żydów do kultury Polskiej.

Ostatnio opublikowana książka Aliny Skibinskiej (współnie z naocznym świadkiem wydarzeń Tadeuszem Marielem) pt. "Jakie to ma znaczenie, czy zrobili to z chciwości? Zagłada domu Trynczerów". Praca poświęcona jest wojennym losom polskiej i żydowskiej społeczności wsi Gniewczyna w gminie Tryńcza, w powiecie przeworskim oraz zbrodniom popełnionym na Żydach przez ich polskich sąsiadów.

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PRESS NEWS: For immediate release Contact: Marek Web

Senior Research Scholar

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011tel. 212-294-6142mweb@yivo.cjh.org

(New York, NY – July 16, 2012)

The Award Committee of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award has the pleasure to announce that Alina Skibinska of Warsaw, Poland, is this year’s recipient of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska prize. Endowed by Professor Jan Karski at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in 1992, the $5,000 prize goes to authors of published works documenting Polish-Jewish relations and Jewish contributions to Polish culture.

The winner was chosen by the Award Committee, whose members are Prof. Jerzy Tomaszewski, Prof. Feliks Tych, Prof. Pawel Spiewak (Director, Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw), and Dr. Jonathan Brent (Director, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research). Marek Web (YIVO Institute) is the Secretary of the Award Committee. The award ceremony will be held in September in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.

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Alina Skibinska is a researcher specializing in the history of rural Jews in Poland under Nazi rule. Since graduating from the University of Warsaw in 1996, she has been working as the official representative of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Poland. Ms. Skibinska conducts archival surveys in major repositories that contain documents relating to the Jewish population in occupied Poland, as well as cooperates with individuals and institutions engaged in historical research, publishing, films, and exhibitions on topics related to the destruction of Polish Jewry.

Alina Skibinska is associated with the Center for Holocaust Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, which conducts interdisciplinary studies on the genocide of Jews during World War II. Her work includes historical research and published papers for the Center’s major projects: The Province: Life and Extermination of Jews in the Warsaw District; Rural Communities in Poland and the Shoah: Polish-Jewish Relations, 1939-1945; Jewish Property in Poland Under the German Occupation and in the Early Post-War Years, 1939-1950. She is on the editorial board of the Center’s annual “The Holocaust: Studies and Materials”.

Alina Skibinska’s most recent publication, Zaglada domu Trinczerow (Annihilation of the House of the Trinczers), 2011, is co-written with Tadeusz Markel, an eyewitness, and describes the killings of the Jews in the village Gniewczyna, in which the local voluntary fire brigade participated alongside the German command.

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The late Professor Jan Karski, the founder of the prize at YIVO, was the envoy of the Polish government-in-exile during the Second World War, who brought to the West firsthand testimony about the conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto and in German death camps. The prize is also named in memory of Professor Karski's late wife, choreographer Pola Nirenska.