The Struggle for Recognition and Continuing the Legacies of Roma and Sinti Holocaust Survivors: A Third-Generation Survivor’s Perspective
Dr. Matkowska will share her family’s story and the family members’ fate during the Second World War and the Holocaust, offering a unique perspective as both a Third-Generation Survivor and a Romani Holocaust scholar.
Dr. Justyna Matkowska
Dr. Justyna Matkowska is a lecturer at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Matkowska earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wroclaw (Poland). Furthering her academic pursuits, she completed the Postgraduate Romani Studies Program at the Pedagogical University of Krakow in Poland. Dr. Matkowska has been the recipient of research grants from prestigious institutions such as the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Romani Studies Program at Central European University. She has also worked as a researcher in the “Re-Thinking Roma Resistance” project at the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Matkowska’s current research focuses on the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti, as well as race and ethnicity, cultural memory, and representation.