Tadeusz Piotrowski (sociologist)

Tadeusz Piotrowski or Thaddeus Piotrowski (born 10 February 1940) is a

Born in the region of Volhynia in occupied Poland, Piotrowski and his family left in August 1943.^[2][3] He earned his PhD in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Piotrowski taught courses at the University of New Hampshire in

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

Criticism

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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),
  ISBN 978-0-7864-0001-0
• Poland's Holocaust (1998, 2006), McFarland,
  ISBN 0-7864-0371-3
• Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn (2000, 2009), McFarland,
  ISBN 0-7864-0773-5
• The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New England (2002, 2009), McFarland,
  ISBN 0-7864-1098-1
• The Polish Deportees of World War II (2004, 2008), McFarland,
  ISBN 0-7864-1847-8
  .

• 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]

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