Marcin Jarząbek is an assistant professor at the Department of Historical Anthropology in the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He holds a PhD in history from the Jagiellonian University and MA in Central European History from the Central European University in Budapest. His main research interests are: veterans of the First World War and their collective memory, oral history, problem of war trauma and its social and medical treatment, social and cultural history of the railway. He is the author of a recently published book "Legioniści i inni. Pamięć zbiorowa weteranów I wojny światowej w Polsce i Czechosłowacji okresu międzywojennego" [The Legionnaries and the Others. Collective memory of the First World Veterans in interwar Poland and Czechoslovakia] (Kraków 2017).