Michał Kowalski is a PhD candidate in history at University of Wroclaw. He is a lawyer (University of Gdansk) and long-term historical journalist. He is specialized in the methodology of research on the Holocaust and in the Holocaust in the Polish province.

In 2018, he started a research project in a province near to Treblinka death camp and since 2020 he works on a doctoral dissertation “Poisoned Land. Influence of the Treblinka death camp on local Jewish and Polish communities 1939/1941 – 1964”.