Annamaria Orla-Bukowska

Who is Annamaria Orla-Bukowska?

Dr. Annamaria Orla-Bukowska is a social anthropologist at the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków; and the Professor/Lecturer at the Center for Social Studies / Graduate School for Social Research in Warsaw. Her general field of research is genocide and its social consequences as well as majority-minority relations. Orla-Bukowska is a 2004 Yad Vashem Fellow.

Annamaria Orla-Bukowska is the co-author of Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future, the 2007 book produced in collaboration with Professor Robert Cherry of Brooklyn College and published in English as well as in Polish. It consists of a series of essays devoted to the subject of the Holocaust in Poland; one of the first books to address the negative assumptions and anti-Polish bias in the Holocaust literature. The book was described by Michael C. Steinlauf as "a ray of light amidst the acrimonious and generally uninformed polemics", and by Deborah Lipstadt as "a series of essays that pierce the stereotypes which have obscured historical reality".