Jarosław Wołkonowski is a Polish-Lithuanian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

Doctor of Philosophy A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

with Habilitation affiliated with the

University of Białystok The University of Bialystok is the largest university in the north-eastern region of Poland, educating in various fields of study, including humanities, social and natural sciences and mathematics. It has nine faculties, including a foreig ...

(in Białystok,

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 ...

, where he holds the title of

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) and

University of Vilnius Vilnius University ( lt, Vilniaus universitetas) is a public research university, oldest in the Baltic states and in Northern Europe outside the United Kingdom (or 6th overall following foundations of Oxford, Cambridge, St. Andrews, Glasgow and ...

(in

Vilnius Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urb ...

, Lithuania, where he lives). He is the president of Association of Polish Scientists in Lithuania (''Związek Naukowców Polskich na Litwie'', sometimes ''Stowarzyszenie Naukowców Polskich na Litwie''). His interests and research are centered on

history of Poland The history of Poland spans over a thousand years, from medieval tribes, Christianization and monarchy; through Poland's Golden Age, expansionism and becoming one of the largest European powers; to its collapse and partitions, two world wars ...

and

history of Lithuania The history of Lithuania dates back to settlements founded many thousands of years ago, but the first written record of the name for the country dates back to 1009 AD. Lithuanians, one of the Baltic peoples, later conquered neighboring lands an ...

, particularly the Polish-Lithuanian relations during the World War II; interactions between Polish and Lithuanian ethnic groups in the

Vilnius region Vilnius Region is the territory in present-day Lithuania and Belarus that was originally inhabited by ethnic Baltic tribes and was a part of Lithuania proper, but came under East Slavic and Polish cultural influences over time. The territor ...

and issues involving

Polish Secret State The Polish Underground State ( pl, Polskie Państwo Podziemne, also known as the Polish Secret State) was a single political and military entity formed by the union of resistance organizations in occupied Poland that were loyal to the Gover ...

and Armia Krajowa operations in that region.

Works

*''Sympozjum historyczne “Rok 1944 na Wileńszczyźnie”: Wilno 30 czerwca–1 lipca 1994r.'' (ed.), Warsaw: Biblioteka “Kuriera Wileńskiego,” 1996, *''Okręg Wileński Związku Walki Zbrojnej - Armii Krajowej w latach 1939-1945'', Warszawa 1996 *''Stosunki polsko-żydowskie w Wilnie i na Wilenszczyznie 1919-1939'', Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, , 2004,

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Zakład Historii Państwa i Prawa UB
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