Arūnas Bubnys (born November 7, 1961) is a Lithuanian historian and archivist. He started his studies at

Vilnius University 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 1985. In 1993 he received a

Ph.D 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 ...

for the thesis ''Lietuvių antinacinė rezistencija 1941–1944 m.'' ( en, Lithuanian Anti-Nazi Resistance 1941-1944). From 1985 on he worked in the Lithuanian Institute of History. In 1993-1998 he was the director of

Lithuanian Special Archives Lithuanian Special Archives is an archive in Lithuania for the storage of documents from the period 1940–91. Numerous KGB and Lithuanian SSR Ministry of Interior documents were left in Lithuania after it gained independence from the Soviet Union ...

. Currently, he works at the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania and is a member of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania.

Fields of interest

* Nazi politics in occupied Lithuania * Lithuanian resistance against Nazi * Polish underground in Lithuania 1941-1944

Major works

*''Lenkų pogrindis Lietuvoje 1939–1940 m.'' ( en, Polish Underground in Lithuania 1939-1940), Vilnius, 1994. *''Lietuvių antinacinė rezistencija 1941–1944 m.'' ( en, Lithuanian Anti-Nazi Resistance 1941-1944), Vilnius, 1991. *''Vokiečių okupuota Lietuva (1941–1944)'' ( en, Lithuania, Occupied by Germans (1941-1944)), Vilnius, 1998.

References

Bio
at Lithuanian Institute of History homepage
Holocaust in Lithuanian province in 1941
1961 births 20th-century Lithuanian historians Historians of Lithuania Living people Vilnius University alumni People from Ignalina 21st-century Lithuanian historians {{Lithuania-historian-stub