Jakub Nowakowski

Jakub Nowakowski was born and raised in Kazimierz, the former Jewish district of Krakow. Coming from a non-Jewish family that lived in Kazimierz for generations, from an early age he was compelled to research the history of his neighborhood. In 2007 he graduated from the Department of Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, where he wrote a thesis on Jewish resistance in Krakow during the Second World War. In 2010, he became the Galicia Jewish Museum’s director. Jakub Nowakowski is the co-author of Museum publications (among others): Poland: A Jewish Matter. He is also a curator of the Museum exhibitions (among other): "Fighting for Dignity. Jewish Resistance in Kraków", "A City Not Forgotten. Memories of Jewish Lwów and the Holocaust", "The Girl in the Diary, Searching for Rywka from Łódź ghetto".

Articles by Jakub Nowakowski