Tomasz Strzembosz


Tomasz Strzembosz was a Polish historian and writer who specialized in the World War II history of Poland. He was a professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Political Studies, in Warsaw; and, from 1991, at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Strzembosz was a resident of Warsaw, Poland.

Postwar career

After World War II, Tomasz Strzembosz was persecuted by the Polish People's Republic government's Urząd Bezpieczeństwa. In the mid-1950s, Stalinist Poland he was prevented from obtaining a master's degree and was repeatedly laid off from work.
Strzembosz was one of the few Polish People's Republic historians who refused to write Soviet-inspired falsehoods about Poland's history. His main areas of research included the history of the World War II Polish Underground State, with special emphasis on German-occupied Warsaw; the Polish partisan movement in the Kresy macroregion between 1939 and 1941, following the Soviet invasion of Poland; and the 1944–46 anti-communist resistance in Poland.
In the 1980s, Strzembosz was an activist in the anti-communist Solidarity movement. In 1989–93, he was president of the Polish Scouting Association .
Strzembosz authored a dozen books and over 100 scholarly papers. He also edited or reviewed over a dozen works by other authors. In 2002, he received Poland's Prize.

Family

Tomasz Strzembosz was one of a set of triplets, with Roman-Catholic activist Teresa and law-professor-judge Adam Strzembosz, who served as chief justice of Poland's Supreme Court. Tomasz married Maria Dawidowska, sister of anti-Nazi underground scouting hero Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski.

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
  • Akcje zbrojne podziemnej Warszawy 1939-1945, PIW, Warsaw 1978, reprinted: PWN 1983
  • Oddziały szturmowe konspiracyjnej Warszawy 1939-1945, PWN, 1979,
  • 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 , Krupski i Spółka, Warsaw 2000
  • W stronę zachodzącego słońca, RYTM, Warsaw 2003
  • Antysowiecka partyzantka i konspiracja nad Biebrzą X 1939 - VI 1941, 2004.