Rafał Wnuk (born 22 May 1967, in

Zamość Zamość (; ; ) 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. Zamość was founded in 1580 by Jan Zamoyski ...

) 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 (, abbreviated IPN) is a Polish state research institute in charge of education and archives which also includes two public prosecutio ...

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

Tomasz Strzembosz Tomasz Strzembosz (11 September 1930 – 16 October 2004) was a Polish people, Polish historian and writer who specialized in the World War II History of Poland (1939–1945), history of Poland. He was a professor at the Polish Academy of Scienc ...

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

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'', 2009-06-14

Works

Wnuk specializes in Polish-Ukrainian relations during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

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

Armia Krajowa The Home Army (, ; 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) established in the ...

) in the former eastern Polish regions (

Kresy Eastern Borderlands (), often simply Borderlands (, ) was a historical region of the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic. The term was coined during the interwar period (1918–1939). Largely agricultural and extensively multi-ethnic with ...

), as well as the history of

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systems. Joanna Michlic commends him as one of the most eminent historians studying the Polish anti-Communist underground. He was the author of one of the most important books on the Polish underground in the

Lublin Lublin is List of cities and towns in Poland, the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the centre of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin i ...

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. Wnuk works at the

Museum of the Second World War The Museum of the Second World War () is a state cultural institution and museum established in 2008 in Gdańsk, Poland, which is devoted to the Second World War. Its exhibits opened in 2017. The museum is supervised by the Ministry of Culture ...

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, of which he has been the director since April 2024, and the

Catholic University of Lublin John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (, , abbreviation KUL) is a university established in 1918. History Father Idzi Benedykt Radziszewski founded the university in 1918. Lenin allowed the priest to take the library and equipment of ...

Books

*''Konspiracja akowska i poakowska na Zamojszczyźnie od lipca 1945 do 1956 roku'' (), Lublin 1993; *Together with

Grzegorz Motyka Grzegorz Motyka (born 1967) is a Polish historian and author specializing in the history of Poland–Ukraine relations. Since 1992 he served at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Institute of National ...

:
Pany i Rezuny. Współpraca AK-WiN i UPA 1945–1947
(''), Warsaw 1997; *''Okręg Lublin AK-DSZ-WiN 1944–1947'', Warsaw 2000; *One of the editors of ''Atlas polskiego podziemia niepodległościowego 1944–1956'' (), Warsaw-Lublin 2007; *''Za pierwszego Sowieta. Polska konspiracja na Kresach Wschodnich II Rzeczypospolitej (wrzesień 1939 – czerwiec 1941)'' (), Warsaw 2007; *Together with

: ''Czerwone Bagno. Konspiracja i partyzantka antysowiecka w Augustowskiem wrzesień 1938-czerwiec 1941'' (), Gdańsk-Warsaw 2009. *Together with Adam F. Baran, Grzegorz Motyka, Tomasz Stryjek: ''Wojna po wojnie. Antysowieckie podziemie w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej w latach 1944-1953'' (), Gdańsk–Warsaw 2012; *Together with Jan Szkudliński, and Robert Zapart: ''Tajemnice Blizny. Wywiad Armii Krajowej w walce z rakietami V-2'' (, Gdańsk–Warsaw 2012; *''Leśni bracia. Podziemie antykomunistyczne na Litwie, Łotwie i w Estonii 1944-1956'' (, Warsaw 2018;

References

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