Barbara Bojarska is a Polish historian, prize-winning author,
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Western Institute The Western Institute in Poznań (Polish: ''Instytut Zachodni'', German ''West-Institut'', French: ''L'Institut Occidental'') is a scientific research society focusing on the Western provinces of Poland - Kresy Zachodnie (including Greater Polan ...

(''Instytut Zachodni'') in

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...

, where she received her doctorate for the work about

Massacres in Piaśnica The massacres in Piaśnica were a set of mass executions carried out by Nazi Germany during World War II, between the fall of 1939 and spring of 1940 in Piaśnica Wielka (Groß Piasnitz) in the Darzlubska Wilderness near Wejherowo. The exact nu ...

. Her books are devoted almost entirely to history of

Pomerania Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The western part of Pomerania belongs to ...

with special focus on the World War II atrocities committed against ethnic Poles by Nazi Germany during

Operation Tannenberg Operation Tannenberg (german: Unternehmen Tannenberg) was a codename for one of the anti-Polish extermination actions by Nazi Germany that were directed at the Poles during the opening stages of World War II in Europe, as part of the ''Generalplan ...

. Bojarska began her scientific career at the Institute, as the research aid to Professor Karol Pospieszalski in 1958–1966, director of the Research Department of History of Nazi Occupation of Poland (''Zakład Badania Dziejów Okupacji Hitlerowskiej w Polsce''). She was traveling between

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...

and

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebur ...

,ABC (27 May 2005)
Barbara Bojarska (in) Karol M. Pospieszalski
by Instytut Zachodni. ''Lustro nauki''. collecting data about the fate of Poles during the genocidal

Intelligenzaktion Pommern The ''Intelligenzaktion Pommern''Stefan Sutkowski (2001), ''The history of music in Poland: The Contemporary Era. 1939–1974''. Vol. 7, page 37 "...some 183 professors of the Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Mining and Foundry in Craco ...

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. Cited, pp. 207 (127/160 in PDF) etc. Her first ground-breaking research into the

was published in 1964 when still little was known about it. Her subsequent

Piaśnica The Piaśnica is a river in northern Poland, in Puck County near Gdańsk, in Pomeranian Voivodeship. It begins inside the Puszcza Darżlubska Wilderness, located in the northernmost part of the geographical region of Pobrzeże Kaszubskie. Darż ...

monograph was released by Zakład Ossolineum in

Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...

in 1978 and since reprinted several times.Elżbieta Grot
Piaśnica 1939-1940. Zbrodnia wciąż okryta tajemnicą (The murder still shrouded in mystery)
''Rebelya.pl'', 2 September 2013; wit

from Ks-Pretorian.com.

Selected publications

* Barbara Bojarska (1963), Zbrodnie Selbstschutzu w Łobżenicy, ''Przegląd Zachodni'', pp. 5–6. * Barbara Bojarska (1965), Obozy zniszczenia na terenie powiatu sępoleńskiego w pierwszych miesiącach okupacji hitlerowskiej, ''Przegląd Zachodni'', p. 123. * Barbara Bojarska (1965), Obóz w Żabikowie pod Poznaniem, ''Przegląd Zachodni]'' XXI/2, pp. 297–306. * Barbara Bojarska (1965), Eksterminacja ludności polskiej w powiecie Chełmno nad Wisłą w 1939 roku, ''Przegląd Zachodni'' XXI/3, pp. 128–142. * Barbara Bojarska (1966), Zbrodnie niemieckie na terenie powiatu Świecie nad Wisłą (1939 r.), ''Przegląd Zachodni'' XXII/1-2, pp. 1–2. * Barbara Bojarska (1966), Pacyfikacja wsi Wanaty w lutym 1944 roku, ''Przegląd Zachodni'' XXII/5-6, p. 5. * Barbara Bojarska( 1972), ''Eksterminacja inteligencji polskiej na Pomorzu Gdańskim (wrzesień- grudzień 1939)'',

: Instytut Zachodni. * Barbara Bojarska (2001), ''Piaśnica - miejsce martyrologii i pamięci: z badań nad zbrodniami hitlerowskimi na Pomorzu'', Wejherowo, . * Barbara Bojarska (2009), ''Piaśnica. Miejsce martyrologii i pamięci. Z badań nad zbrodniami hitlerowskimi na Pomorzu'', Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo BiT (4th expanded edition).

Notes and references

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