Anna Wencel

Anna Wencel graduated from the Institute of Jewish Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 2008. Her research interests include Jewish history in the 19th and 20th century, Jewish cemeteries, Holocaust remembrance, innovative and participatory teaching methods. Educator at Galicia Jewish Museum since 2008, she has worked as museum guide, researcher, lecturer, and coordinator of educational programs, including the flagship project “Teaching the Holocaust in Context” – seminars for teachers on Jewish history, antisemitism and the Holocaust.

 At the Galicia Jewish Museum, Anna’s work has included: curator and co-curator of exhibitions "All the Roads... Stories of Jews who Survived the Holocaust" (2014), "Houses of Eternity. Jewish Cemeteries of Former Galicia" (2015), "The Girl from the Diary. In Search of Rywka from the Łódź Ghetto" (2017), "Hungarian Lions of Judah in Galicia" (2018), "HerStories - In the Footsteps of European Jewish Women" (2023), "To Leave Something to the World... Beyond the Pages of Renia Spiegel's Diary" (2024), "KEF Means Fun!" (2024). 

Author and co-author of GJM's publications, in 2018, she coordinated the publishing project "Janka Goldstein's Diary", which consisted of a critical study and publication of the diary written in occupied Kraków by Janina Goldstein. Anna Wencel co-authored the script for the film "Renia Spiegel's Diary" (2023, dir. M. Kozioł, T. Głodek) and coordinated educational activities related to the film. She is also involved in artistic activities, combining the traditions of Polish and Jewish papercutting in her original works.