Dariusz Stola (born 11 December 1963 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 ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

) is a professor of history at the Institute of Political Studies of the

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."Curriculum vitae"
Polish Academy of Sciences.

Career

Stola teaches modern history and studies 20th-century

human migration Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region). The movement often occurs over long distances and from one country to another (ex ...

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; ...

, Polish-Jewish relations, and the history of postwar Poland's communist regime. From 2014 to 2019 he was director of the

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews ( pl, Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich) is a museum on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto. The Hebrew word ''Polin'' in the museum's English name means either "Poland" or "rest here" and relates to a ...

. He is the author or co-author of seven books and over one hundred scholarly papers.

Awards

Stola is a two-time recipient of the ''

Polityka ''Polityka'' (, ''Politics'') is a centre-left weekly news magazine in Poland. With a circulation of 200,050 (as of April 2011), it was the country's biggest selling weekly, ahead of ''Newsweek''s Polish edition, '' Newsweek Polska'', and '' W ...

'' magazine award, and a recipient of the award of the Edward Raczyński Polish Foundation in London, England.

Selected works

*''Kraj bez wyjścia? Migracje z Polski 1949-1989'' (A Country with No Way Out? Migrations from Poland, 1949–1989), Warsaw,

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 ...

, 2010. ''

'' Award for Best Historical Book of 2010. *''Historia'' (History). Textbook for secondary-school classes 2 (with J. Czubaty) and 3, Warsaw, 2009 *Co-author, ''Od Piłsudskiego do Wałęsy. Studia z dziejów Polski w XX wieku'' (From Piłsudski to Wałęsa: Studies in 20th-Century Polish History), Warsaw, 2008 *''Złote lata PZPR: finanse partii w dekadzie Gierka'' (Golden Years of 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 ...

: The Party's Finances during Gierek's Decade), Warsaw, 2008 *Co-author, ''PRL. Trwanie i zmiana'' (The

: Endurance and Change), Warsaw, 2003 *Co-author, ''Patterns of Migration in Central Europe'', New York, 2001 *''Kampania antysyjonistyczna w Polsce 1967-1968'' (The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland, 1967–1968), Warsaw, 2000 *''Nadzieja i zagłada. Ignacy Schwarzbart – żydowski przedstawiciel w Radzie Narodowej RP, 1940-1945'' (Hope and Destruction: Ignacy Schwarzbart, Jewish Representative in the Polish National Council, 1940–1945), Warsaw, 1995

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