PhD, sociologist, member of the Holocaust Research Center. She lives in Podhale and for more than a dozen years has been researching the fate of local Jews during the Holocaust and the postwar period. She is involved in activities to restore the memory of Podhale Jews: she is a Leader of Dialogue supported by the Forum for Dialogue Foundation and a volunteer in the "People not Numbers" project of the Popiel Family Center Foundation. She has been awarded for her social activities and courage in raising difficult historical topics. She is currently preparing for publication a monograph that is an expanded version of her doctoral dissertation on the extermination of the Jews of Nowy Targ, which won first prize in the Majer Balaban competition and the Inka Brodzka-Wald competition.

PhD, Professor Emeritus at the UW, worked in the Department of Sociology of Morality and General Axiology at the UW Institute of Applied Social Sciences. She has been a member of the Center for Holocaust Research since its inception in 2018. - as professor emerita. Her research interests include issues of individual social identity, sociological issues of social minorities, the history of the Holocaust and Polish-Jewish relations, the issue of biographical choices in border situations, issues of the past and memory of the past in individual biographies and in the life of societies. She has published, among other works, The Holocaust and Identity. Polish Jews rescued "on Aryan papers". An analysis of biographical experience (2004).