Introduction

Funding for the conference was provided by various entities at Princeton University: the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), the Department of History, the Council of the Humanities, the University Center for Human Values, the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Center for the Study of Religion, and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. The conference was staffed and seamlessly organized by the PIIRS and its program manager, Jayne Bialkowski. Articles of the Polish participants were translated into English by Jerzy Giebułtowski and Anna Brzostowska. We are deeply grateful for their support.

In addition to Natalia Aleksiun of Touro College and Jan Grabowski of the University of Ottawa, who maintain active professional lives in Poland as well, other American participants were Omer Bartov of Brown University, Christopher Browning of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, David Engel of New York University, Benjamin Frommer of Northwestern University, Jan Gross of Princeton University, Michael Meng of Clemson University, and Antony Polonsky of Brandeis University. Professor Jean Charles Szurek, of the Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques and the University of Paris, also joined our group.

Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów (centrum@holocaustresearch.pl). The Center has also been publishing an annual journal, Zagłada Żydów, since 2005.

Two most recent book publications on the subject are by Barbara Engelking, Jest taki piękny słoneczny dzień . . . Losy Żydów szukających ratunku na wsi polskiej 1942-1945 (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo IFiS PAN, 2011), and Jan Grabowski, Judenjagd. Polowanie na Żydów 1942-1945. Studium dziejów pewnego powiatu (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo IFiS PAN, 2011). A seminal article on the same subject was published earlier in the first issue of the yearly Zagłada Żydów in 2005, by Alina Skibińska and Jakub Petelewicz: "Udział Polaków w zbrodniach na Żydach: casus region świętokrzyski."