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.University of New Hampshire at Manchester, Thaddeus Piotrowski. Faculty. Internet Archive.
Early life and education Born in the Volhynia region of occupied Poland, Piotrowski emigrated with his family in August 1943.The UNH News for Faculty and Staff: Campus Journal, Thaddeus Piotrowski’s fifth major work. Higher Learning, January 16, 2004 Edition.John Walters, "Eastern Europe and Western Indians". New Hampshire Public Radio, October 3, 2002.[Forced redirect.]
In 1973 he earned his PhD degree in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Career Piotrowski taught courses at the University of New Hampshire in anthropology and the Holocaust.McFarland Publishing, .
Works
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.
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.
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. Gifford Malone, a US diplomat writing in History: Reviews of New Books, found the volume to be a well written and moving account.
Criticism
Piotr Wróbel considers Piotrowski's works to be "highly polemical and controversial", similar to those by Richard C. Lukas and Marek Jan Chodakiewicz. 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.
Bibliography Piotrowski's major books include:McFarland Publishing, Poland’s Holocaust, description. The American Institute of Polish Culture, Miami, "Gold Medal Awards" 1987-2009 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, Poland's Holocaust (1998, 2006), McFarland, , Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn (2000, 2009), McFarland, , The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New England (2002, 2009), McFarland, , The Polish Deportees of World War II (2004, 2008), McFarland, , .
Awards 1995: The Cultural Achievement Award from the American Council for Polish Culture for his Vengeance of the SwallowsPAHA Personalia. PAHA newsletter. March 2000. Vol 57 No 1 p. 5-6 1999: The Literary Award of the Polish Sociocultural Centre of the Polish Library in London 2007: 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.University of New Hampshire at Manchester, Polish American Historical Association, Interpreter of Perennial Wisdom Award from the Monuments Conservancy of New York
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