Tadeusz Piotrowski (sociologist)

Tadeusz Piotrowski
Born	10 February 1940 Poland
Occupation	Writer, academic
Nationality	Polish-American
Citizenship	American
Genre	World War II history

Tadeusz Piotrowski or Thaddeus Piotrowski (born 10 February 1940) is a Polish-American sociologist and author.

He is a professor of sociology in the Social Science Division of the University of New Hampshire at Manchester, in Manchester, New Hampshire. ^[1]

Early life and education

Born in the Volhynia region of occupied Poland, Piotrowski emigrated with his family in August 1943. ^{[2] [3]}

In 1973 he earned his PhD degree in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.^{[ citation needed ]}

Career

Piotrowski taught courses at the University of New Hampshire in anthropology and the Holocaust. ^[4]

Works

Poland's Holocaust

Main article: Poland’s Holocaust

Poland’s Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918–1947, first published in 1998, concerns the topic of Poland's history in the interwar period as well as in World War II, with particular focus on the uneasy relations between various ethnic groups of the Second Polish Republic. ^{[5] [6]}

Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn

Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn, first published in 2000, concerns the topic of massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia during WWII. Bogdan Musiał, reviewing for Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung in 2001, found it to be an unbiased and informative work; however, he noted that there was a lack of engagement with the historical and political context of the events. ^[7]

The Polish Deportees of World War II

The Polish Deportees of World War II, first published in 2004, concerns the topic of mass deportations of Poles following the Soviet invasion and occupation of Eastern Poland in 1939. Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann in her review of this book for the Journal of Cold War Studies wrote that the book is "an excellent teaching tool" that "will likely be of great interest" to scholars interested in either modern history of that region or the topic of forced migrations. ^[8] Gifford Malone, a US diplomat writing in History: Reviews of New Books , found the volume to be a well written and moving account. ^{[9] [10]}

Criticism

Piotr Wróbel considers Piotrowski's works to be "highly polemical and controversial", similar to those by Richard C. Lukas and Marek Jan Chodakiewicz. ^[11] According to Ukrainian historian Andrii Bolianovskyi, Piotrowski's studies on the Ukrainian-Polish ethnic conflicts rely unilaterally on the way they were conceived and presented by Polish right-wing politicians and the underground press during World War II. ^[12]

Bibliography

Piotrowski's major books include: ^{[13] [14]}

• Vengeance of the Swallows: Memoir of a Polish Family's Ordeal Under Soviet Aggression, Ukrainian Ethnic Cleansing and Nazi Enslavement, and Their Emigration to America (1995), McFarland & Company, ISBN   978-0-7864-0001-0
• Poland's Holocaust (1998, 2006), McFarland, ISBN   978-0-7864-2913-4, ISBN   0-7864-0371-3
• Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn (2000, 2009), McFarland, ISBN   978-0-7864-4245-4, ISBN   0-7864-0773-5
• The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New England (2002, 2009), McFarland, ISBN   0-7864-4252-2, ISBN   0-7864-1098-1
• The Polish Deportees of World War II (2004, 2008), McFarland, ISBN   978-0-7864-3258-5, ISBN   0-7864-1847-8.

Awards

• The Cultural Achievement Award from the American Council for Polish Culture ^[1]
• The Literary Award of the Polish Sociocultural Centre of the Polish Library in London ^[1]
• Gold Medal Award for "promoting Polish history and culture", bestowed by the American Institute of Polish Culture at the 35th International Polonaise Ball in Miami. ^{[15] [16]}

References

1. University of New Hampshire at Manchester, Thaddeus Piotrowski. Faculty. Internet Archive.
2. The UNH News for Faculty and Staff: Campus Journal, Thaddeus Piotrowski’s fifth major work. Higher Learning, January 16, 2004 Edition.
3. John Walters, "Eastern Europe and Western Indians". Archived 2010-06-16 at the Wayback Machine New Hampshire Public Radio, October 3, 2002.^{[Forced redirect.]}
4. McFarland Publishing, Thaddeus Piotrowski. About the Author. ISBN   978-0-7864-4252-2.
5. Friedrich, Klaus-Peter (1999). "Tadeusz Piotrowski, Poland's Holocaust. Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947". Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung (in German). 48 (2): 277–279.
6. Cienciala, Anna M. (June 2001). "Tadeusz Piotrowski, Poland's Holocaust. Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918–1947. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1998, 437 pp. + maps, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, index" . Nationalities Papers. 29 (2): 361–363. doi:10.1017/S0090599200019802. ISSN   0090-5992. S2CID   165408276.
7. Musial, Bogdan (2001-03-22). "Genocide and Rescue in Wołyń. Recollections of the Ukrainian Nationalist Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Against the Poles During World War II". Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung (in German). 50 (2): 300–301. doi:10.25627/20015027546.
8. Jaroszyñska-Kirchmann, Anna D. (2007). "Review of The Polish Deportees of World War II: Recollections of Removal to the Soviet Union and Dispersal throughout the World" . Journal of Cold War Studies. 9 (1): 155–157. doi:10.1162/jcws.2007.9.1.155. ISSN   1520-3972. JSTOR   26926006.
9. Malone, Gifford (2004-01-01). "The Polish Deportees of World War II: Recollections of Removal to the Soviet Union and Dispersal Throughout the World". History: Reviews of New Books. 33 (1): 30. doi:10.1080/03612759.2004.10526424. ISSN   0361-2759. S2CID   142655637.
10. Cienciala, Anna M. (2009-05-29). "An Unknown Page of History: The Poles Deported to the USSR in 1940–1941" . The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. 22 (2): 301–314. doi:10.1080/13518040902918527. ISSN   1351-8046. S2CID   145529414.
11. Wróbel, Piotr (2015-04-04). "The Eagle Unbowed. Poland and the Poles in the Second World War by Halik Kochanski (review)" . Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 33 (3): 151–153. doi:10.1353/sho.2015.0014. ISSN   1534-5165. S2CID   143910948.
12. Bolianovskyi, Andrii (2021-03-30). "Historiography of confrontation between Polish and Ukrainian underground forces during the years of the German-Soviet war: Main tendencies of interpretation of the events in Poland". East European Historical Bulletin (18): 244. doi: 10.24919/2519-058X.18.226505 . ISSN   2664-2735. S2CID   233608097.
13. McFarland Publishing, Poland’s Holocaust, description. Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
14. The American Institute of Polish Culture, Miami, "Gold Medal Awards" 1987-2009 Archived 2011-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
15. University of New Hampshire at Manchester, "Campus Connections: "Faculty News", February 2007" (PDF). (161 KB) 
16. Polish American Historical Association, ""Personalia", Volume 64, Number 1, April 2007" (PDF). (1.08 MB)