Irena Strzelecka Explained
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.
- (2009). Medical Crimes: The Hospitals in Auschwitz. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
- (2010). Punishment in Auschwitz. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
- (2016). Women in Auschwitz. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
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Notes and References
- News: Piętka . Bohdan . Nie żyje Irena Strzelecka, starszy kustosz Państwowego Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau . . 3 March 2017 . https://archive.today/20200107023139/https://dziennikzachodni.pl/nie-zyje-irena-strzelecka-starszy-kustosz-panstwowego-muzeum-auschwitzbirkenau/ar/12143637 . 7 January 2020 . Polish . live . 7 January 2020 .
- Book: Długoborski . Wacław . Piper . Franciszek . Franciszek Piper. Auschwitz, 1940–1945. Central Issues in the History of the Camp. Auschwitz 1940–1945 . V: Epilogue . 2000 . Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum . Oświęcim . About the authors . 288 (285–289) . 978-8385047872.
- Book: Gutman . Yisrael . Israel Gutman . Berenbaum . Michael . Michael Berenbaum . Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp . Contributors . xiii (xi–xiv) . 1998 . 1994 . Indiana University Press . Bloomington, IN . 0-253-32684-2.
