Journalist-editor and historian Annamária Papp was born in Cluj-Napoca on 4 December 1975. She completed her secondary education at the Reformed College of Cluj-Napoca (1990- 1994) and graduated from Babes-Bolyai University (BBTE) with a degree in journalism (1998) and history (2002).

At present, she works as journalist-editor and head of the political section of the daily paper Szabadság [Liberty] in Cluj-Napoca. Her research interests primarily include the period after the Second World War (prisoners of war, civilian deportees, people forced to do so-called “small labor”), as well as the horrors of communism, especially 1956 in Transylvania, processing the memories of survivors using the method of oral history.