We are starting work on the next issues of our yearbook with a revised and expanded editorial board. Prof. Jacek Leociak, who has made a major contribution to the journal's standing and importance over the past 20 years, is leaving the editorial board. Jacek we sincerely thank you.

Joining the editorial board are two excellent researchers, Dr. Aleksandra Bańkowska and Dr. Tomasz Frydel, with whom (we firmly believe) we will be able to achieve even more, and raise the quality of subsequent volumes to a higher level.

An interesting fact worth noting is that Dr. Aleksandra Bańkowska debuted in the pages of "Holocaust of the Jews. Studies and Materials" in volume 1(2005) with an article entitled Polish Partisan Formations during 1942–1944 in Jewish Testimonies

Dr Aleksandra Bankowska – historian, graduate of doctoral studies at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences; editor and co-editor of four volumes as part of the project for the full Polish edition of documents from the Ringelblum Archive at the Jewish Historical Institute, head of the National Science Center project Institutions and Outposts of Jewish Social Care in the General Government 1939-1944 conducted at the IH PAN, co-author of the online Encyclopedia of the Warsaw Ghetto published by the IH PAN, recipient of the Claims Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies and the Kersten Foundation, winner of the Prof. Majer Balaban Competition for the best doctoral thesis. She has published in the journals "Holocaust Studies and Materials", "Jewish History Quarterly", "East European Jewish Affaires", "Studies in the History of Russia and Central and Eastern Europe". Dr Bankowska is preparing for publication a monograph on Jewish welfare in Warsaw in 1939-1943. Currently working at the Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the project Around Aid and Rescue of Jews in Occupied Polish Lands - New Approaches, in which she deals with the phenomenon of paid aid.

Dr Tomasz Frydel - received his PhD in history under the supervision of Prof. Piotr Wrobel at the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto in 2021. His dissertation, entitled "Rural Society and the Holocaust in the General Government - the Case of Kreis Debica, 1939-1945," is a micro-history of the Holocaust in one rural district in German-occupied Poland. He currently serves as a contract researcher for the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos Refresh project at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC. He is also a member of the "Around the Help" research project run by the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw. He has held a research fellowship at the Shoah Memorial Foundation in Paris under Dr. Max Bergholz at Concordia University in Montreal (2021-2023); the Fred and Maria Devinki Memorial Fellowship at the USHMM (2019-2020); the Claims Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies (2016-2018); the Center for Holocaust Studies Fellowship Institut für Zeitgeschichte (2013); and the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship in Toronto (2012-2016). From 2022 to 2024, he served as a consultant to Twentieth Century Television on a series from Hulu entitled We Were the Lucky Ones, based on the novel by Georgia Hunter. He has published in national and international volumes and journals.