Irena Strzelecka (4 January 1940 – 31 May 2017) was a Polish historian and senior custodian of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland.[1][2] She was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for her work on the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp.[1]

The author of over 30 articles on the camp,[1] Strzelecka wrote about its hospitals, its medical experiments, and the situation of its female prisoners.[2][3] She was the author of several articles in the five-volume monograph Auschwitz 1940–1945 (2000), including on the camp's construction and the punishment of prisoners; she also helped to retrieve and document the history of several of the Auschwitz subcamps. With Franciszek Piper, she edited a series on Polish political prisoners sent to Auschwitz from Kraków, Lublin, Radom and Warsaw.[1]

Strzelecka was born in Przemyśl. A graduate of the history and philosophy department at Jagiellonian University, she joined the Department of Historical Research of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in 1965.[3]

Selected works

  • (2008). Medical Crimes: The Experiments in Auschwitz. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. ISBN 978-8360210796 OCLC 908696508
  • (2009). Medical Crimes: The Hospitals in Auschwitz. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. ISBN 978-8360210703 OCLC 939016404
  • (2010). Punishment in Auschwitz. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. ISBN 978-8360210949 OCLC 908768155
  • (2016). Women in Auschwitz. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. ISBN 978-8377041918 OCLC 1010872112

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Piętka, Bohdan (3 March 2017). "Nie żyje Irena Strzelecka, starszy kustosz Państwowego Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau". Dziennik Zachodni (in Polish). Archived from the original on 7 January 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  2. 1 2 Długoborski, Wacław; Piper, Franciszek, eds. (2000). "About the authors". Auschwitz, 1940–1945. Central Issues in the History of the Camp. Vol. V: Epilogue. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. p. 288 (285–289). ISBN 978-8385047872.
  3. 1 2 Gutman, Yisrael; Berenbaum, Michael, eds. (1998) [1994]. "Contributors". Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. p. xiii (xi–xiv). ISBN 0-253-32684-2.
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