KAJA KAŹMIERSKA, associated professor, Director of the Institute of Sociology, Head of the Department of Sociology of Culture at University of Lodz, Head of the Centre for Biographical Research and Oral History at University of Lodz, Chair of 03 RNBiographical Perspectives On European Societies in ESA (2015-2019). Her research interests include:biographical research, collective identity, collective, generation and biographical memory, studies on Jewish identity.The author of many articles and five books i.e. (2012) Biography and Memory: The Generational Experience of the Shoah Survivors, Academic Studies Press, Boston.