Irena Strzelecka (4 January 1940 – 31 May 2017) was a Polish historian and senior custodian of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland.^[1][2] She was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for her work on the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp.^[1]

The author of over 30 articles on the camp,^[1] Strzelecka wrote about its hospitals, its medical experiments, and the situation of its female prisoners.^[2][3] She was the author of several articles in the five-volume monograph Auschwitz 1940–1945 (2000), including on the camp's construction and the punishment of prisoners; she also helped to retrieve and document the history of several of the Auschwitz subcamps. With Franciszek Piper, she edited a series on Polish political prisoners sent to Auschwitz from Kraków, Lublin, Radom and Warsaw.^[1]

Strzelecka was born in Przemyśl. A graduate of the history and philosophy department at Jagiellonian University, she joined the Department of Historical Research of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in 1965.^[3]

Selected works

• (2008). Medical Crimes: The Experiments in Auschwitz. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. ISBN 978-8360210796 OCLC 908696508
• (2009). Medical Crimes: The Hospitals in Auschwitz. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. ISBN 978-8360210703 OCLC 939016404
• (2010). Punishment in Auschwitz. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. ISBN 978-8360210949 OCLC 908768155
• (2016). Women in Auschwitz. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. ISBN 978-8377041918 OCLC 1010872112