National Library of Poland (Poland).
Jacek Kordel studied history in Warsaw and Berlin from 2007 to 2012 and earned a PhD in early modern history in 2017. Since 2018, he has been an assistant professor at the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw and, since 2019, the head of the Historical Department at the Institute for Book and Reading Research at the National Library of Poland.
At the National Library, his research focuses on the fate of Polish books and library collections during World War II. In the field of library history, he has published several works, including: NS-Bibliothekspolitik im besetzten Polen. In: C. Conter (ed.), NS-Bibliothekspolitik und -praxis in Europa („Bibliothek und Wissenschaft“, forthcoming; Der Büchermord: Die Zerstörung der Bibliotheken in der polnischen Hauptstadt während und nach der Niederschlagung des Aufstands (August 1944 bis Januar 1945). In: V. de Senarclens (ed.), Bücher und ihre Wege: Bibliomigration zwischen Deutschland und Polen seit 1939, Paderborn 2024, pp. 21–44; An Ethos of a German Librarian? German Librarians in the General Government in the Light of Contemporary Memories from the Second World War. In: Polish Libraries 11, pp. 86–113; and The Decimation of Polish Libraries during the Second World War. In: Polish Libraries 10, pp. 6–15.