Rafał Wnuk (born 22 May 1967, in

Zamość Zamość (; yi, זאמאשטש, Zamoshtsh; la, Zamoscia) is a historical city in southeastern Poland. It is situated in the southern part of Lublin Voivodeship, about from Lublin, from Warsaw. In 2021, the population of Zamość was 62,021. ...

) is a

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historian, editor of several historical periodicals, employee of the Institute of History of the

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and of the Polish

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 ...

(IPN). Wnuk was a student of the Polish historian

Tomasz Strzembosz Tomasz Strzembosz (11 September 1930 – 16 October 2004) was a Polish historian and writer who specialized in the World War II history of Poland. He was a professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Political Studies, in Warsaw; an ...

.Janusz Marszalec, Rafał Wnuk
"Kainowa zbrodnia. 65. rocznica mordu na Widerszalu i Makowieckim"
''

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'', 2009-06-14

Career

Wnuk specializes in Polish-Ukrainian relations during

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as well as in the history of Polish resistance (primarily of

Armia Krajowa The Home Army ( pl, Armia Krajowa, abbreviated AK; ) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II. The Home Army was formed in February 1942 from the earlier Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Armed Resistance) esta ...

) in the former eastern Polish regions (

Kresy Eastern Borderlands ( pl, Kresy Wschodnie) or simply Borderlands ( pl, Kresy, ) was a term coined for the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic during the interwar period (1918–1939). Largely agricultural and extensively multi-ethnic, it ...

), as well as the history of

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systems. He was the author of one of the most important books on the Polish underground in the

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region in 2000. Together with Sławomir Poleszak, Agnieszka Jaczyńska and Magdalena Śladecka he is the editor of "The Atlas of the Polish Independent Underground 1944-1956" (''Atlas Polskiego Podziemia Niepodległościowego 1944 – 1956'') published in 2007 by the IPN.Tomasz Stańczyk
"Mapa Polski antykomunistycznej"
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'', 21-03-2008 Wnuk works at the

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and the

Catholic University of Lublin John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin ( pl, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, la, Universitas Catholica Lublinensis Ioannis Pauli II, abbreviation KUL), established in 1918. It is the only private college in Poland with the s ...

Books

*''Konspiracja akowska i poakowska na Zamojszczyźnie od lipca 1944 r. do 1956 r.'', Lublin 1993; *''Pany i Rezuny. Współpraca AK-WiN i UPA 1945–1947'', Warszawa 1997 (with Grzegorz Motyka); *''Okręg Lublin AK-DSZ-WiN 1944–1947'', Warszawa 2000. *''Atlas polskiego podziemia niepodległościowego 1944–1956'' (ed.) *''Za pierwszego Sowieta. Polska konspiracja na Kresach Wschodnich II Rzeczypospolitej (wrzesień 1939 – czerwiec 1941)'', Warszawa 2007. Instytut Pamięci Narodowej i Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN, . *''Wojna po wojnie. Antysowieckie podziemie w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej w latach 1944-1953'', Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar – Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN – Muzeum II Wojny Światowej, Gdańsk – Warszawa 2012. (co-author)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wnuk, Rafal 1967 births Living people People from Zamość 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Recipients of the Silver Cross of Merit (Poland) People associated with the Institute of National Remembrance John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin alumni John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin faculty Polish Academy of Sciences faculty 21st-century Polish historians