Prof. Andrzej Paczkowski (born 1 October 1938 in Krasnystaw) is a Polish historian. Professor of Collegium Civitas, director of Modern History Studies in the Political Institute of Polish Academy of Sciences, member of Collegium of Institute of National Remembrance.
In 1960 he finished studies at the history department of the University of Warsaw. In 1966 Paczkowski defended his doctorate thesis, and was habilitated in 1975. In 1990 he was given the professor degree.
In 1974-1995 (for 7 terms) he was a president of the Polish Mountaineering Association (Polski Związek Alpinizmu).
Marian Włodzimierz Kukiel was a Polish major general, historian, social and political activist.
Henryk Zieliński was a Polish historian and professor at the University of Wrocław.
Andrzej Witold Nowak is a Polish historian and opinion journalist.
Stanisław Marian Kutrzeba (1876–1946) was a Polish historian and politician who was Professor of the Jagiellonian University from 1908, and then until the end of his life the Chair of Studies in Polish law. He was chair of the Law Department, university's rector (1932/33), General Secretary of Polish Academy of Learning (1926–39) and its president (1939–1946). He was one of many professors of Jagiellonian University arrested by Nazis during Sonderaktion Krakau in 1939. After being freed in 1940, he took part in the underground education. In 1945, he was deputy to the State National Council.
Piotr Łossowski is a Polish historian and professor. Lecturer at Collegium Civitas. Member of the Historical Committee of Polish Academy of Sciences. He specializes in the areas of foreign politics and diplomacy and history of the Second Polish Republic, military history of Poland in the years 1918–1920, history of the Baltic states and their relations with Poland. He gained major recognition for his works on the state of Polish diplomacy in the time of the Second Republic.
Andrzej Chwalba is a Polish historian. Professor of history at the Jagiellonian University, the university's prorector of didactics (1999-2002), head of the Institute of Social and Religious History of Europe in 19th and 20th century, and the deacon and prodeacon of Department of History.
Andrzej Ajnenkiel was a Polish historian. He specialized in the political history of Poland and the history of Polish law, especially constitutional law.
Edward Stanisław Długajczyk is a Polish historian. He is specializing in history of Upper Silesia in the 20th century.
Jerzy Borejsza was a Polish communist activist and writer. During the Stalinist period of communist Poland, he was chief of a state press and publishing syndicate.
Piotr Jan Wróbel is a Polish-Canadian historian and expert specializing in Polish history and Central and Eastern European history. His academic research revolves around the national minorities of Central and Eastern Europe with special focus on Polish-Jewish relations and the history of Polish Jewry since the Partitions of Poland.
Jerzy Krzysztof Eisler is a Polish historian, focusing mostly on the history of Poland during the communist era. He is a professor at the History Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and member of the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw. In 1994-97 he was a principal of Adam Mickiewicz Polish school in Paris. Eisler gained a title of professor in 2002 and was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit medal in 2006.
Andrzej Friszke is a Polish historian and lecturer. He specializes in the history of communist Poland and the democratic opposition to the communist regime.
Jerzy Stanisław Holzer was a Polish historian. He specialized in the Polish history, German history, and the Polish-German relations.
Rzeczpospolita Polska was the official magazine of the Government Delegation for Poland. It was a source of instruction and information for other Polish underground organizations, including other underground publications, operating in occupied Poland.
Michał Weinzieher was a Polish art historian and art critic, museologist, and separately also a writer on constitutional law. He also published several pieces of travel reportage from France, England, and the Soviet Union.
Around 6 million Polish citizens perished during World War II: about one fifth of the pre-war population. Most were civilian victims of the war crimes and crimes against humanity during the occupation by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Approximately half were Polish Jews killed in The Holocaust. Statistics for Polish World War II casualties are divergent and contradictory. This article provides a summarization of these estimates of Poland's human losses in the war and their causes.
Władysław Andrzej Serczyk (1935-2014) was a Polish historian-Ukrainist. Born in Krakow, he after graduating Jagiellonian University stayed in the university and began his scientific career. In 1963, he received his doctorate and in 1968 Serczyk received his habilitation. Since 1976 he was a professor. In 1974-1978, Serczyk was a director of Jagiellonian Library. In 1986-1996, he headed a branch of University of Warsaw in Bialystok, Institute of History of Eastern Europe.
Wojciech Jerzy Muszyński is a Polish historian. His areas of interest are the recent history of Poland and military history.
Jerzy Jedlicki was a Polish historian of ideas, Humanities Professor and an anti-communist activist during the times of the Polish People's Republic.
Adam Szymon Pragier was a Polish economist, Doctor of Jurisprudence professor at the Free Polish University, socialist activist, politician, member of the Polish Legions and writer. A minister of information and documentation in the Polish government-in-exile in London, he upheld for the rest of his life its legal continuity in the struggle for the restoration of Poland as a sovereign state.