Dariusz Marian Libionka (born on 25 June 1963 in
Bielsko-Biała
Bielsko-Biała (; cs, Bílsko-Bělá, german: Bielitz-Biala, szl, Bjylsko-Bjoło) is a city in southern Poland, with a population of approximately 168,319 as of December 2021, making it the 22nd largest city in Poland, and an area of . It is a ...
) is a Polish historian affiliated with the
Institute of National Remembrance
The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation ( pl, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, abbreviated IPN) is a Polish state resea ...
in
Lublin. Libionka graduated from the
Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) and the School for Social Science of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the
Polish Academy of Sciences
The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society o ...
. His research interests include the Polish-Jewish relations and history of Poland after 1945, with special focus on the status of the Jewish community in Poland throughout 20th century: in the
Second Polish Republic, in the
General Government formed by Nazi Germany, and in the
Polish People's Republic
The Polish People's Republic ( pl, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern Republic of Poland. With a population of approximately 37.9 million ne ...
after World War II, as well as, all matters of the Polish-Jewish relations and
Judaism
Judaism ( he, ''Yahăḏūṯ'') is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people. It has its roots as an organized religion in t ...
in Poland.
From 1994, Libionka worked in the Polish Contemporary History section of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences and, since 2000, in the Bureau of Public Education of the Institute of National Remembrance (''Instytut Pamieci Narodowej'') in
Lublin. His articles appeared in "Dzieje Najnowsze”, "Biuletyn ŻIH”, "Polska 1944/1945-1999”, "
Tygodnik Powszechny
''Tygodnik Powszechny'' (, ''The Common Weekly'') is a Polish Roman Catholic weekly magazine, published in Kraków, which focuses on social, cultural and political issues. It was established in 1945 under the auspices of Cardinal Adam Stefan Sa ...
" and in "Yad Vashem Studies”.
In 1998 he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation "The 'Jewish Question' in Polish catholic Press in the 1930s."
Publications
*"Polska ludność chrześcijańska wobec eksterminacji Żydów – dystrykt lubelski" (''Polish-Christian Population and the Nazi Extermination of Jews in Lublin District'')
*Armia Krajowa i Delegatura Rządu wobec eksterminacji Żydów; Kościół katolicki, antysemityzm, Zagłada (''The Home Army, the
Delegatura and the
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
; The Catholic Church, antisemitism and the Holocaust'')
*„Aktion Reinhardt” The Extermination of the Jews in the
General Government; editor
Articles
* ''Kwestia żydowska – myślenie za pomocą clichés. Przypadek “Odrodzenia” 1935-1939'', „Dzieje Najnowsze” 1995, nr 3.
* ''The Catholic Church in Poland and the Holocaust, 1939-1945''
n''The Holocaust and the Christian World'', ed. C. Ritter, S. D. Smith, I. Steinfeld, London 2000.
* ''Die Kirche in Polen und der Mord an den Juden im Licht der polnischen Publizistik und Historiographie nach 1945'', „Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa – Forschung“ 2002, nr 2.
* ''Obcy, wrodzy, niebezpieczni. Obraz Żydów i „kwestii żydowskiej” na łamach prasy inteligencji katolickiej w latach trzydziestych'', „Kwartalnik Historii Żydów” 2002, nr 3.
* ''Brakujące ogniwo. Sowiecka literatura antysyjonistyczna w Polsce przed i po Marcu 1968''
n''Komunizm. Ideologia , system, ludzie'', edited by T. Szarota, Warszawa 2001.
* ''Duchowieństwo diecezji łomżyńskiej wobec antysemityzmu i zagłady Żydów''
n''Wokół Jedwabnego'', edited by P. Machcewicz and Krzysztof Persak, Warszawa 2002.
References
External links
About dr Dariusz Libionka at the Polish Center for Holocaust Research*
ttp://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-libionka-weinbaum-s06.htm "Deconstructing Memory and History" by Dariusz Libionka and Laurence Weinbaum at the Jewish Political Studies Review
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1963 births
Living people
20th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
People associated with the Institute of National Remembrance
People from Bielsko-Biała
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin alumni
21st-century Polish historians