Andrzej Krzysztof Kunert (born 12 October 1952 in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

) is a Polish historian and lecturer, specializing in the history of

Polish resistance movement in World War II The Polish resistance movement in World War II (''Polski ruch oporu w czasie II wojny światowej''), with the Polish Home Army at its forefront, was the largest underground resistance movement in all of occupied Europe, covering both German a ...

. Since April 2010 he is the secretary general of the

Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites The Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites ( pl, Rada Ochrony Pamięci Walk i Męczeństwa) is a Polish government body charged with the preservation of historical sites of wartime persecution of the Polish nation. It was set ...

Career

Kunert graduated from the Institute of History of the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

. In 1984-1990 he worked in the publishing house of the

PAX Association The PAX Association () was a pro-communist Catholic organization created in 1947 in the People's Republic of Poland at the onset of the Stalinist period. The association published the ''Słowo Powszechne'' daily for almost fifty years between 19 ...

. After the fall of communism, he worked as editor-in-chief of Bellona publishing house, and in the

Museum of Polish Army Museum of the Polish Army ( pl, Muzeum Wojska Polskiego) is a museum in Warsaw documenting the History of the Polish Army, military history of Poland. Established in 1920 under the Second Polish Republic, it occupies a wing of the building of the ...

. In 2002 he received a

doctoral degree A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...

of historical science from the

University of Zielona Góra The University of Zielona Góra was founded on 1 September 2001 as a result of a merger between Zielona Góra's Pedagogical University, which was founded in 1971 and Technical University, which was founded in 1965. It is one of the newer univ ...

.Profile
at Nauka Polska portal On 25 September 2009 he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the

Order of Polonia Restituta The Order of Polonia Restituta ( pl, Order Odrodzenia Polski, en, Order of Restored Poland) is a Polish state decoration, state Order (decoration), order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on al ...

. On 16 April 2010, Kunert was named as the secretary general of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites, succeeding

Andrzej Przewoźnik Andrzej Przewoźnik (13 May 1963 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish historian who served as Secretary of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites. He died in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash near the city of Smolensk, ...

, who died during the Polish Air Force crash six days earlier.Andrzej Kunert nowym szefem Rady Ochrony Pamięci Walk i Męczeństwa
at ''

Rzeczpospolita () is the official name of Poland and a traditional name for some of its predecessor states. It is a compound of "thing, matter" and "common", a calque of Latin ''rés pública'' ( "thing" + "public, common"), i.e. ''republic'', in Engli ...

'', 16 April 2010.

Works

* ''Wrzesień 1939'' (1993) * ''Ilustrowany przewodnik po Polsce Podziemnej: 1939-1945'' (1996) * ''Lista strat kultury polskiej 1939-1945'' (1998) * ''Żołnierskie epitafia : 1914-1918, 1918-1921, 1939-1945'' (as editor, 1999) * ''Rozkazy Naczelnych Wodzów Polskich Sił Zbrojnych 1939-1945'' (as editor, 2002) * ''Żydzi polscy w służbie Rzeczypospolitej 1939-1945'' (as editor, 2002) * ''Polskie wigilie wojenne 1939-1945'' (as editor, 2003) * ''Osiem misji kuriera z Warszawy'' (as editor, 2005) * ''Oskarżony

Kazimierz Moczarski Kazimierz Damazy Moczarski (21 July 1907 – 27 September 1975) was a Polish writer and journalist, an officer of the Polish Home Army (''noms de guerre'': Borsuk, Grawer, Maurycy, and Rafał; active in anti-Nazi resistance). Kazimierz Moczars ...

'' (2006) * ''Bitwa o Monte Cassino w poezji 1944-1969: "Nasze granice w Monte Cassino..."'' (as editor, 2007) * ''1939 - Polska była pierwsza'' (2009) * ''Katyń - ocalona pamięć'' (2010)

References

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