Science Department

The Science Department of the Stutthof Museum researches various aspects of the Stutthof camp’s history and its prisoners’ fate. As per the Museum’s statute, this research not only pertains to the period of World War II and Stutthof but also encompasses other related issues on the region, such as the history of the Free City of Gdańsk (1920–1939), Gdańsk Pomerania during the German occupation, the Polish Underground State in Pomerania, and the post-war history of the memorial site. The work of historians results in books, scientific articles, and presentations. The museum also has its own scientific yearbook – “Zeszyty Muzeum Stutthof”.

Science Department Team:

(PhD) dr  Marcin Owsiński – head of the department
e-mail: marcin.owsinski@stutthof.org
tel. 55 247 83 53 ext. 226
Research areas:
– History of the Stutthof camp (including the fate of various groups of prisoners, organization of the camp, construction and functioning of various camp structures);
– Post-war history of the memorial site on the site of the former KL Stutthof;
– Stutthof trials after the war;
– Memory and its transformations on the example of Stutthof and its prisoners;
– The use of historical research in education.

Piotr Chruścielski
e-mail: piotr.chruscielski@stutthof.org
tel. Sztutowo 55 247 83 53 ext. 226
Research areas:
– Marginalized groups, including antisocial and criminal prisoners, homosexual prisoners and their place in the politics of memory;
– The fate of prisoners – Germans and Austrians (including the post-war period, the families memories, and German and Austrian historical policy);
– Prison control system.

(PhD) dr  Tomasz Gliniecki
e-mail: tomasz.gliniecki@stutthof.org
tel. Sztutowo 55 247 83 53 ext. 251
Research areas:
– 1945 in Stutthof and Żuławy;
– Soviet prisoners of war in KL Stutthof;
– Red Army fighting in Gdańsk Pomerania in 1945.

Agnieszka Kłys
e-mail: agnieszka.klys@stutthof.org
tel. Sztutowo 55 247 83 53 ext. 233
Research areas:
– Juvenile prisoners of the Stutthof camp;
– Numbering of the prisoners;
– Prisoner mortality;
– lFate of prisoners – Finns.

(PhD) dr Aleksander Michalak
e-mail: aleksander.michalak@stutthof.org
tel. Sztutowo 55 247 83 53 ext. 251
Research areas:
– Accounts of Jewish prisoners of KL Stutthof;
– Ideology and activities of the Zionist youth organization Betar;
– Religion and war;
– Jews and the Mandate for Palestine in the years 1922 – 1945.