Zuzanna Bogumil is Assistant Professor at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw. She works on the religious dimension of memory. Her recent publications focus on representation of the Second World War in Eastern European museums and rediscovery of Russia's repressive past.

Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw. She has published several articles and books on ethnic minorities in Poland, ethnic identity and social memory in post-Soviet countries.

Vernacular memory - Vernacular community - Local community - National site of memory - Local history - Moral capital - Religious framework of memory - Milieux de mémoire - Cultural trauma of local community - Vernacular commemoration - Relationships between ethnic Poles and Polish Jews - Jedwabne - Markowa - Ulma Family - Michniów - Martyrdom - Kalków-Godów - Polish peasants - Historical politics