full professor in the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, head of the Holocaust Literature Studies Department of the Institute of Literary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, editor of the annual Holocaust. Studies and Materials. Together with Barbara Engelking he is a scholarly supervisor of the Holocaust gallery in the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Interested in various forms of recording limit experiences (including the Holocaust experience). Recently published a new, amended, improved and extended edition of Getto warszawskie. Przewodnik po nieistniejącym mieście (2013, (co-author with Barbara Engelking) [English edition: The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City], Tekst wobec Zagłady. O relacjach z getta warszawskiego (2 nd edition 2016), Biografie ulic. O ulicach Warszawy od narodzin po Zagładę (2017), Młyny boże. zapiski o Kościele i Zagładzie (2018). Published in 2019: Limit Experiences. A Study of Twientieth-Century Forms of Representation