Monika Heinemann

Monika Heinemann

Dr. Monika Heinemann is research coordinator at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow in Leipzig. Her doctoral thesis dealt with Polish remembrance culture based on museum representations of the Second World War since the 1980s.

Julia Pirotte, Ruinen des Warschauer Ghettos, Kreuzung der Bohaterów-Ghetta- (Ghettohelden-) und der Mordechai-Anielewicz-Straßen, Warschau 1946. Jüdisches Historisches Institut Emanuel Ringelblum

Background Article

Jews in Poland immediately after the Holocaust

A post-war story in photographs

Self-determination and violence, mourning and new beginnings, reconstruction and emigration – photographs illustrate the ambivalence of Jewish lives in post-war Poland. How were these pictures created and distributed, and what is it that they fail to show us?