Dr. Maria Ciesiel­s­ka is a spe­cial­ist in Fam­i­ly Med­i­cine and a uni­ver­si­ty lec­tur­er with a doc­tor­ate in med­ical his­to­ry. A keen per­son­al inter­est in learn­ing more about the fate of her Jew­ish peers in War­saw dur­ing the Holo­caust moti­vat­ed Maria to pub­lish an award-win­ning book on this top­ic in 2017 after years of research.