Barbara Bojarska

{{Short description|Polish historian, author and long-term research scientist}}

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|known_for = Forensic investigation into Massacres in Piaśnica

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Barbara Bojarska is a Polish historian, prize-winning author,[http://www.yasni.info/ext.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgwe24.pl%2Fdrukuj%2Fart%2F1745.html&name=Barbara+Bojarska&showads=1&lc=en-us&lg=en&rg=pl&rip=ca Gryf Literacki dla super książki.] GWE24.pl [http://gwe24.pl/Gryf-Literacki-dla-super-ksiazki,1745.html Announcements] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129063326/http://gwe24.pl/Gryf-Literacki-dla-super-ksiazki,1745.html |date=2014-11-29 }}. and former long-term research scientist{{fact|date=October 2021}} at the Western Institute (Instytut Zachodni) in Poznań, where she received her doctorate for the work about Massacres in Piaśnica. Her books are devoted almost entirely to history of Pomerania with special focus on the World War II atrocities committed against ethnic Poles by Nazi Germany during Operation Tannenberg.

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 and Magdeburg,ABC (27 May 2005), [https://lustronauki.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/karol-marian-pospieszalski-prawnik-ktory-nie-dal-zrobic-z-siebie-agenta/ Barbara Bojarska (in) Karol M. Pospieszalski] by Instytut Zachodni. Lustro nauki. collecting data about the fate of Poles during the genocidal Intelligenzaktion Pommern.Archives, [https://web.archive.org/web/20141129052349/http://150.254.215.205/pz/folder2/przegladzachodni.archiwum.html Przegląd Zachodni bimonthly (list of PDF files) at Wayback] stored from the [http://150.254.215.205/pz/folder2/przegladzachodni.archiwum.html Polish original.] See [https://web.archive.org/web/20141129052349/http://150.254.215.205/pz/folder2/dokumenty/65-69%281%29.pdf Table of Contents] (PDF) for the years 1965{{ndash}}69, pp. 123, 128, 297; and [https://web.archive.org/web/20141129052349/http://150.254.215.205/pz/folder2/dokumenty/70-74%281%29.pdf Table of Contents] (PDF) for the years 1970{{ndash}}74 among others. Since then, she wrote numerous publications on the subject widely cited by Polish as well as German historians.[https://web.archive.org/web/20141129045604/http://instytutkaszubski.republika.pl/pdfy/acta-2008_81-240.pdf Instytut kaszubski. Republika.pl at Wayback] (PDF) stored [http://instytutkaszubski.republika.pl/pdfy/acta-2008_81-240.pdf from Polish original] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129045604/http://instytutkaszubski.republika.pl/pdfy/acta-2008_81-240.pdf |date=November 29, 2014 }}. Cited, pp. 207 (127/160 in PDF) etc. Her first ground-breaking{{fact|date=September 2020}} research into the Massacres in Piaśnica was published in 1964 when still little was known about it. Her subsequent Piaśnica monograph was released by Zakład Ossolineum in Wrocław in 1978 and since reprinted several times.Elżbieta Grot, [http://rebelya.pl/post/4653/piasnica-1939-1940-zbrodnia-wciaz-okryta-tajemn Piaśnica 1939-1940. Zbrodnia wciąż okryta tajemnicą (The murder still shrouded in mystery)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217213832/http://rebelya.pl/post/4653/piasnica-1939-1940-zbrodnia-wciaz-okryta-tajemn |date=2014-12-17 }} Rebelya.pl, 2 September 2013; with [http://www.ks-pretorian.com/iiws/wojna/0002.htm timeline] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129061343/http://www.ks-pretorian.com/iiws/wojna/0002.htm |date=2014-11-29 }} from Ks-Pretorian.com.