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Krzysztof Bielawskiis a historian, Jewish-cemetery researcher, and genealogist. He is a graduate of the Institute of History at the University of Warsaw, specializing in Jewish Studies, and is currently a PhD student at University of Warsaw. From 2009 to 2024 Bielawski served as the Jewish heritage specialist at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. He's currently Project Coordinator at the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage. He started the website Jewish Cemeteries in Poland (www.cmentarze-zydowskie.pl) in 2005 and has authored various articles on Jewish cemeteries and funeral customs and Jewish life in Poland after 1944.
"""Krzysztof Bielawski has gathered hundreds of examples of activities leading to destruction of Jewish cemeteries in Poland. It is a completely unknown image, and at the same time overwhelming with its scale. From the beginning of Jewish settlement, about 1,200 Jewish cemeteries were created--likely not even one avoided the destruction. The author describes a sad reality, which evokes moral indignation and shame."" -- Dr. Krzysztof Persak, Polish Academy of Science, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews ""The work describes the processes responsible for Jewish cemetery destruction in Poland over the last century. The author refutes the myth of the 'total destruction of Jewish cemeteries by the Germans during the Second World War, ' showing that the Germans did not carry out their complete destruction and that they alone were not responsible for such acts."" -- Prof. Marzena Zawanowska, University of Warsaw ""Krzysztof Bielawski is now considered to be one of the leading researchers of Jewish cemeteries in Poland. The subject of his research has, thus far, fallen into the gaps in Polish historiography--it has been taboo, unwanted, hidden, marginalized, omitted, incorrect, embarrassing and, finally, unknown. This book complements, from a different field, the works of such authors as Prof. Jan Tomasz Gross, Jan Grabowski, and Barbara Engelking."" -- Prof. Andrzej Trzciński, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin ""This book will certainly be interesting reading for people who are looking for their roots in Poland--it will help to understand what happened to the Jewish heritage in their towns."" -- Prof. Jan Grabowski, University of Ottawa"
