Adam Cyra (born 1949) is a Polish historian. A specialist in

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 ...

history of

Central Europe Central Europe is an area of Europe between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, based on a common historical, social and cultural identity. The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) between Catholicism and Protestantism significantly shaped the a ...

, he graduated from Jagiellonian University. Since 1972 he is a staff member of the

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum ( pl, Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau) is a museum on the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim (German: ''Auschwitz''), Poland. The site includes the main concentration camp at Auschwi ...

Oświęcim Oświęcim (; german: Auschwitz ; yi, אָשפּיצין, Oshpitzin) is a city in the Lesser Poland ( pl, Małopolska) province of southern Poland, situated southeast of Katowice, near the confluence of the Vistula (''Wisła'') and Soła rive ...

. His doctoral thesis at the Silesian University was on a Polish cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader

Witold Pilecki Witold Pilecki (13 May 190125 May 1948; ; codenames ''Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh, Witold'') was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader. As a youth, Pilecki joined Polish underground s ...

. He authored several dozen books and articles, mostly on World War II history of Poland and the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Selected works

* Adam Cyra, Raport Witolda, „ Biuletyn Towarzystwa Opieki nad Oświęcimiem” 1991 nr 12. * Adam Cyra, Sylwetki niektórych żołnierzy AK – członków obozowego i przyobozowego ruchu oporu. Uroczystość odsłonięcia i poświęcenia pamiątkowej tablicy w hołdzie żołnierzom Armii Krajowej i ludziom niosącym pomoc więźniom Oświęcimia, Katowice 1995. * Adam Cyra, Wiesław J. Wysocki, Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki, Warszawa 1997. * Adam Cyra, Ochotnik do Auschwitz.

(1901-1948), Oświęcim 2000 , * Adam Cyra, Cichociemny z Babic. Major Piotr Szewczyk (1908-1988), Oświęcim 2000, Warszawa 2006, Oświęcim - Tułowice 2016. * Adam Cyra, Pozostał po nich ślad...życiorysy z cel śmierci, Oświęcim 2006. * Adam Cyra, Mieszkańcy ziemi olkuskiej w hitlerowskich więzieniach i obozach koncentracyjnych, Oświęcim – Olkusz 2005. * Adam Cyra, Spadochroniarz „Urban”. Ppor. Stefan Jasieński (1914-1945), Oświęcim 2005. * Adam Cyra, Upamiętnienie Żydów olkuskich. 65. rocznica likwidacji getta w Olkuszu – czerwiec 2007 r., Oświęcim – Olkusz 2007. ISSN 0860-4258 * Adam Cyra, Podobóz KL Auschwitz Harmęże, Oświęcim 2007. ISBN 978-83- 60367-64-3 * Adam Cyra, Banderowcy w KL Auschwitz, (in:) „Studia nad Faszyzmem i Zbrodniami Hitlerowskimi”, t. XXX, Wrocław 2008. * Adam Cyra, Żwirownia obok Theatergebäude jako miejsce zbrodni w KL Auschwitz, (w:) „Studia nad Faszyzmem i Zbrodniami Hitlerowskimi”, t. XXXIV, Wrocław 2012.

References

External links

Adam Cyra's blog
1949 births Living people 21st-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers 20th-century Polish historians {{poland-historian-stub