Mgr. Magdalena Sedlická, Ph.D.

Mgr. Magdalena Sedlická, Ph.D., studied History and Hebrew Studies and completed a doctoral program in Modern and Contemporary History at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. From 2009 to 2017, she worked as a research fellow at the Department for the History of the Shoah at the Jewish Museum in Prague, which she headed from 2016 to 2017. Within the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, she collaborated on the research project The Integration of the Jewish Population into Postwar Czechoslovakia and Poland (GA ČR).

Since 2018, she has been affiliated with the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where she contributed to the research project Integration and Segregation in Urban Space: Holocaust History in Prague through a Mobile Web Application (TA ČR), as well as to the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) under FP7 and H2020. Since 2025, she has served as the national coordinator of the Czech EHRI node, which is part of the large research infrastructure LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ (funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic).

Her research focuses on modern Jewish history in the Czech lands, the Holocaust, oral history, and digital editions. In 2021, she published the book Not All Friends Are Alike: Jews in the Nation State of Czechs and Slovaks, 1945-1948. She is also one of the lead editors of EHRI’s digital editions Early Holocaust Testimony (2020) and Documentation Campaign (2023), which focus on early postwar testimonies about the Holocaust.