Tomasz Strzembosz

Tomasz Strzembosz
Born (1930-09-11)September 11, 1930
Warsaw
Died October 16, 2004(2004-10-16) (aged 74)
Warsaw, Poland
Occupation Historian
Language Polish
Alma mater Warsaw University
Genre Non-fiction
Subject World War II history
Notable works Rzeczpospolita podziemna
Notable awards Custodian of National Memory Prize

Tomasz Strzembosz (11 September 1930 – 16 October 2004) was a Polish historian and writer who specialized in the history of Poland during World War II. He was a professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences' Institute of Political Studies in Warsaw; and, at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (from 1991). Strzembosz was a resident of Warsaw, Poland.[1]

Postwar career

Following World War II, Tomasz Strzembosz was persecuted by the notorious Urząd Bezpieczeństwa secret police. In the Stalinist Poland of the mid 1950s, he was barred from obtaining his Master's Degree and repeatedly laid off from work. Strzembosz was one of a few postwar historians in the communist-controlled Polish People's Republic who refused to write pro-Soviet falsities about Poland's history. The main areas of his studies included the history of the Polish Underground State with special focus on the German-occupied Warsaw, as well as the Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–46) and the Polish partisan movement in the Kresy macroregion between 1939 and 1941, following the Soviet invasion of Poland.[2]

In the 1980s, Tomasz Strzembosz became an activist in the anti-communist Solidarity movement. In 1989–93 he was president of the Polish Scouting Association (photo). His brother, Adam Strzembosz, was a former chief justice of Poland's Supreme Court.

In addition to about a dozen books, Tomasz Strzembosz authored over 100 scholarly publications. On top of that, he served as editor and reviewer of over a dozen works by other authors. In 2002 Tomasz Strzembosz became the laureate of Poland's Custodian of National Memory Prize (pl).[2]

Criticism

According to Joanna Michlic, Strzembosz belongs to an ethno-nationalist school of thought in Poland that also includes Marek Jan Chodakiewicz and Bogdan Musiał.[3][4] According to Michlic this groups treats the notion of Żydokomuna (Judeo-Communism) not as an antisemitic canard but rather an image rooted in historical reality, in which Jews were pro-Soviet and anti-Polish, basing their claims on primary wartime sources of various origins.[5]

Bibliography

Books

  • Tumult warszawski 1525 r., PWN, Warszawa 1959
  • Odbijanie i uwalnianie więźniów w Warszawie 1939-1944, PWN, Warsaw 1972
  • Ludność cywilna w powstaniu warszawskim 1944, et al. Vol. 1, PIW, Warsaw 1974 (Academy of Sciences Award)
  • Akcje zbrojne podziemnej Warszawy 1939-1945, PIW, Warsaw 1978, reprinted: PWN 1983
  • Oddziały szturmowe konspiracyjnej Warszawy 1939-1945, PWN, 1979, ISBN 83-01-00085-6
  • Szare Szeregi jako organizacja wychowawcza, IWZZ, Warsaw 1984
  • Refleksje o Polsce i podziemiu 1939-1945, Spotkania, Lublin 1986, reprinted 1990
  • Bohaterowie "Kamieni na szaniec" w świetle dokumentów, PWN, Warsaw 1994
  • Saga o "Łupaszce" ppłk. Jerzym Dąbrowskim 1889-1941, Rytm, Warsaw 1996
  • Rzeczpospolita podziemna (1939 - 1945), Krupski i Spółka, Warsaw 2000
  • W stronę zachodzącego słońca, RYTM, Warsaw 2003
  • Antysowiecka partyzantka i konspiracja nad Biebrzą X 1939 - VI 1941, 2004.[1]

Articles

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Wasilewski, Jan Krzysztof (7 August 2011). "Publications and Bibliography of Works by Professor Tomasz Strzembosz". John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Award Ceremony of the Grzegorz Jakubowki Prize" [Uroczystość wręczenia Nagrody im. Grzegorza Jakubowskiego]. Custodian of National Memory (Nagroda Kustosz Pamięci Narodowej). Institute of National Remembrance. 12 November 2002. Archived from the original on 15 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe, edited by John-Paul Himka, Joanna Beata Michlic, page 433
  4. ↑ Shared History, Divided Memory: Jews and Others in Soviet-occupied Poland, edited by Elazar Barkan, Elizabeth A. Cole, Kai Struve, page 87
  5. ↑ Shared History, Divided Memory: Jews and Others in Soviet-occupied Poland, edited by Elazar Barkan, Elizabeth A. Cole, Kai Struve, page 69
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