Joanna Ostrowska

Humanities Ph.D. laureate. Lecturer at the Judaistic Studies Chair at Jagiellonian University (Kraków), Gender Studies at Warsaw University, and Polish-Jewish Studies at the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences. She researches the subject of forgotten victims of the Holocaust and queer history of WWII. Ostrowska is the author of Przemilczane. Seksualna praca przymusowa w czasie II wojny światowej (Unmentioned: Sexual Forced Labor during World War II – 2018); ‘Mein Führer!’ The Victims of Forced Sterilization in Lower Silesia, 1934–44 (2019) and Jene. Homosexuelle während des Zweiten Weltkriegs (2023). In 2022, her book Oni. Homoseksualiści w czasie II wojny światowej was nominated for the Nike Literary Award and awarded the Nike Audience Award. Film critic, member of the selection committee for the Kraków Film Festival, and programmer of the LGBT Film Festival in Warsaw. She worked as a dramaturge for theatrical productions directed by Małgorzata Wdowik, Marta Ziółek, Wojciech Grudziński, and Hana Umeda.