Jakub Petelewicz is a Polish historian dealing with the topics connected with the Holocaust and Polish-Jewish relationships. He studied history and applied social studies at the Warsaw University. Fellow at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM provides for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history...

 in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

, and Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament....

 Institute in Jerusalem. author of numerous articles about the Holocaust of Polish Jewry and Polish-Jewish relationships.
Co-founder, academic secreatry of Polish Center for Holocaust Research

Polish Center for Holocaust Research

Polish Center for Holocaust Research | Centrum Badan nad Zaglada Zydow is an academic and research center at the Polish Academy of Sciences.-Mission:Created in 2003, the main goal of the Center is interdisciplinary research relating to the Holocaust...

. Managing editor of academic journal Zaglada Zydow. Studia i Materialy

Holocaust Studies and Materials

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały/Holocaust Studies and Materials is an academic yearbook created in the circle of scholars and researchers from the Polish Center for Holocaust research. It is an annual entirely devoted to the topics connected with the broadly understood Holocaust research...

 and its English language edition Holocaust Studies and Materials

Holocaust Studies and Materials

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały/Holocaust Studies and Materials is an academic yearbook created in the circle of scholars and researchers from the Polish Center for Holocaust research. It is an annual entirely devoted to the topics connected with the broadly understood Holocaust research...

. Main editor in the Polish Center for Holocaust Research

Polish Center for Holocaust Research

Polish Center for Holocaust Research | Centrum Badan nad Zaglada Zydow is an academic and research center at the Polish Academy of Sciences.-Mission:Created in 2003, the main goal of the Center is interdisciplinary research relating to the Holocaust...

. He was one of the authors of the initial concept and historical content of the Holocaust gallery in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

. He prepared also exhibition concept and historical narration of the exposition History of Jewish Population of Lowicz in the Lowicz Regional Museum. He cooperates also with Forum for Dialogue among the Nations as an educational expert and advisor. Currently working on the topicJewish Self Help organization in the General Government

Publications and articles

• Wybór źródeł do nauczania o zagładzie Żydów na okupowanych ziemiach polskich/Selection of the sources for the Holocaust education in Poland, ed. A. Skibinska, R. Szuchta, Warszawa 2010
• Polsko-ukraińskie obszary badawcze - Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa „Kresy Wschodnie pod okupacją sowiecką 1939-1941; stosunki ukraińsko-polsko-żydowskie, życie społeczne i wzajemne relacje” (in:) Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, vol. 3, R. 3, 2007
• Raul Hilberg in memoriam (in:) Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, vol. 3, R. 3, 2007
• Akta instytucji opiekuńczych i pomocowych (in:) Alina Skibińska, Źródła do badań nad zagładą Żydów na okupowanych ziemiach polskich. Przewodnik archiwalno bibliograficzny, Wyd. Cyklady i Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów, Warszawa 2007
• Denuncjacje Franciszka Berkowicza i Józefa Markusfelda w Łowiczu – studium przypadku (in:) Roczniki Łowickie, t. IV, rok 2007
• The Participation of Poles in Crimes Against Jews in the Świętokrzyskie Region (in:) Yad Vashem Studies 2007 (2)
• Udział Polaków w zbrodniach na Żydach na prowincji regionu świętokrzyskiego (in:) Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, vol. 1, R. 1, 2005 [wspólnie z Aliną Skibińską]
• Jak Polacy patrzyli na getto z zewnątrz z Jerzym Tomaszewskim rozmawia Jakub Petelewicz (in:) Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, vol. 1, R. 1, 2005
• Wypadki antysemickie w Łowiczu w listopadzie 1931 r. na podstawie prasy (in:) Roczniki Łowickie, t. II, rok 2005
• "Tumult i gewałt na Zduńskiej" - Wokół wyborów łowickich rabinów w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym (in:) Biuletyn Gminy Wyznaniowej Żydowskiej w Warszawie, kwiecień-sierpień 2004 ISSN 1730-854
• "Tumult i gewałt na Zduńskiej" - rozszerzona wersja artykułu (in:) Gwiazdeczki/Szterndlech, nr 1-2 (18), R. 2004 ISSN 1507-5559
• Dzieje ludności żydowskiej w Łowiczu 1939-1945,cz. 1, (in:) Teka Historyka, R.1998, Z. 11, ss.89-118. Warszawa, czerwiec 1998.
• Dzieje ludności żydowskiej w Łowiczu 1939-1945,cz. 2, (in:) Teka Historyka, R.1998, Z. 12, ss.91-124. Warszawa, listopad 1998.
• Endlösung den Judenfrage. Wyjątkowość i normalność Holocaustu, (in:) Teka Historyka, R.1999, Z. 13, ss11-22. Warszawa, marzec 1999.