Jerzy Turonek ( be, Юры Туронак, translit=Jury Turonak; 26 April 1929 – 2 January 2019) was a Polish-Belarusian historian. He was born in Dukszty into the family of

West Belarus Western Belorussia or Western Belarus ( be, Заходняя Беларусь, translit=Zachodniaja Bielaruś; pl, Zachodnia Białoruś; russian: Западная Белоруссия, translit=Zapadnaya Belorussiya) is a historical region of mod ...

ian political activist Bronisław Turonek in the Second Polish Republic's Wilno Voivodeship.

Biography

After

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

, Turonek graduated from the Higher School for Planning and Statistics 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 ...

in 1952, and later worked for the Polish foreign trade chamber where he was analysing the international chemicals market and worked at the European economic commission in

Geneva , neighboring_municipalities= Carouge, Chêne-Bougeries, Cologny, Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Pregny-Chambésy, Vernier, Veyrier , website = https://www.geneve.ch/ Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevr ...

. In the early 1960s, Turonek began researching the Belarusian national movement of the early 20th century, Polish-Belarusian relations in the 20th century, and the history of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1986, he became a Doctor of History. Turonek is the author of monograph ''Białoruś pod okupacją niemiecką'' (Belarus under the German occupation) published in 1993 by

Książka i Wiedza ''Książka i Wiedza'' ("Books and Knowledge") is a Polish publishing house founded in 1948, soon after World War II. As of the mid-2010s it has published over 13,000 titles. In communist Poland it was the leading state publisher of books about pol ...

. Copies of his monograph shipped to Belarus for distribution were confiscated by the

KGB The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...

, the Belarusian security service.

Works

* ''Białoruś pod okupacją niemiecką'' (Belarus under German occupation, Warsaw, 1993), * ''Wacław Iwanowski i odrodzenie Białorusi'' (Vacłaŭ Ivanoŭski and the renaissance of Belarus, Warsaw, 1992), * ''Książka białoruska w II Rzeczypospolitej 1921-1939'' (Belarusian book publishing in the Second Polish Republic, Warsaw, 2000), * ''Беларуская кніга пад нямецкім кантролем (1939-1944)'' (Belarusian book publishing under German control in 1939-1944, Minsk, 2002). * ''Людзі СБМ'' (People GMS, Belarusian Youth Union)Вынікі ператрусу на кватэры, дзе знаходзіцца маёмасьць «Бацькаўшчыны» — канфіскаваныя гістарычныя кнігі
Наша Ніва

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Turonek, Jerzy 1929 births 2019 deaths People from Dūkštas Polish people of Belarusian descent 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Historians of Belarus Male non-fiction writers