Joanna Sliwa, PhD, works as Historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) in New York, the only organisation that negotiates with the German government for compensation for Jewish Holocaust survivors.

She previously worked in the Global Archives Department at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, where she managed academic initiatives to promote the history of the organization. She has taught Holocaust and Jewish history at Kean University and at Rutgers University and has served as a historical consultant and researcher for PBS television programs, including Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr and In the Name of Their Mothers: The Story of Irena Sendler.

Dr Sliwa's scholarship has been featured in American, British, German, and Polish publications, both edited volumes and journals. Her most recent book, Jewish Childhood in Krakow: A Microhistory of the Holocaust, received the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Award from the Wiener Holocaust Library in London.