Elżbieta Olczak
, b. 1967
Elżbieta Olczak graduated from the Faculty of the Humanities of the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) in History. After graduation, she studied French in Paris for a year and obtained a diploma there. She taught history for the next eight years at general education high schools in Gdynia. During the following decade, she worked in a publishing house in Warsaw, designing and editing educational texts for teaching history: textbooks, exercise books, historical atlases, acetates, and teaching aids. She also edited popular publications in the area of art history, often at her initiative and according to her design.
During this time, she wrote and published educational materials: Historia. Zeszyt do ćwiczeń na mapach konturowych dla liceum [History. Book of Exercises on Contour Maps for High Schools], 2001; Historia. Zeszyt ćwiczeń dla 1 klasy gimnazjum [History. Book of Exercises for Grade I of Gymnasium], 2002; Historia. Szkoła podstawowa. Zestaw foliogramów [History. Elementary School. Set of Acetates], 2006; she also co-authored Spotkania z historią. Atlas z komentarzami źródłowymi dla gimnazjum [Encounters with History. An Atlas with Source Commentaries for High Schools], 2007. With Elżbieta Lubomirska she wrote Mity greckie na wesoło [Greek Myths for Fun], 2005; with Małgorzata Balsewicz Historia Polski – 100 wydarzeń [History of Poland — 100 Events], 2010. She is currently working for the WW2 Museum in Gdańsk, in the research section, organizing the permanent exhibition of the new Museum, including a show space designed for children and young people. She also supervises preparation of scholarly books published by the Museum.
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