Jerzy Turonek
{{Short description|Polish-Belarusian historian (1929–2019)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Jerzy Turonek
| native_name = {{nobold|Юры Туронак}}
| native_name_lang = be
| image = Jerzy Turonek portret.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Turonek at the Warsaw Collegium Civitas in 2010
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|04|26|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Dūkštas, Wilno Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic
(now in Utena County, Lithuania)
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|01|02|1929|04|26|df=yes}}
| death_place = Warsaw, Poland
| nationality = Polish (Belarusian minority in Poland)
| other_names =
| known_for = Studies of history of Belarus in the early 20th century and during the Second World War
| occupation = historian
| organization =
| awards = File:Ribbon-BNR 100 Jubilee Medal.png Belarusian Democratic Republic 100th Jubilee Medal (2018)
}}
Jerzy Turonek ({{langx|be|Юры Туронак|translit=Yury Turonak}};{{cite news|title=Юры Туронак: "Саюз беларускай моладзі я дасьледаваў чатыры гады" |date=7 May 2007 |author=Міхась Скобла |newspaper=Радыё Свабода |location=Менск |url=http://www.svaboda.org/content/Transcript/757445.html |via=Internet Archive |publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829232302/http://www.svaboda.org/content/Transcript/757445.html |archive-date=2008-08-29}} 26 April 1929 – 2 January 2019) was a Polish-Belarusian historian. He was born in Dūkštas into the family of West Belarusian political activist {{Ill|Branislaŭ Turonak|be|Браніслаў Туронак}} in the Second Polish Republic's Wilno Voivodeship.
Biography
After World War II, Turonek graduated from the Higher School for Planning and Statistics in Warsaw in 1952, and later worked for the Polish foreign trade chamber where he was analysing the international chemicals market and worked at the European economic commission in Geneva.
In the early 1960s, Turonek began researching the Belarusian national movement of the early 20th century, Polish-Belarusian relations in the 20th century, and the history of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1986, he became a Doctor of History. Turonek is the author of monograph Białoruś pod okupacją niemiecką (Belarus under the German occupation) published in 1993 by Książka i Wiedza.{{Cite book |author=Jerzy Turonek |title=Białoruś pod okupacją niemiecką |trans-title=Belarus under the German occupation |location=Warsaw |publisher=Książka i Wiedza |year=1993 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_iuCAAAAIAAJ&q=Bramy |isbn=83-05-12611-0}} Copies of his monograph shipped to Belarus for distribution were confiscated by the KGB, the Belarusian security service.{{cite web| url=http://nn.by/index.php?c=ar&i=7247 | title=Вынікі ператрусу на кватэры, дзе знаходзіцца маёмасьць "Бацькаўшчыны" - канфіскаваныя гістарычныя кнігі |access-date=2010-06-12 |author=Źmicier Pankawiec |author2=Aleh Rajawiec |publisher=Nasza Niwa |date=2007-03-18 |language=be}}
Works
- Białoruś pod okupacją niemiecką (Belarus under German occupation, Warsaw, 1993),
- Wacław Iwanowski i odrodzenie Białorusi (Vacłaŭ Ivanoŭski and the renaissance of Belarus, Warsaw, 1992),
- Książka białoruska w II Rzeczypospolitej 1921-1939 (Belarusian book publishing in the Second Polish Republic, Warsaw, 2000),
- Беларуская кніга пад нямецкім кантролем (1939-1944) (Belarusian book publishing under German control in 1939-1944, Minsk, 2002).
- Людзі СБМ (People GMS, Belarusian Youth Union)[http://nn.by/index.php?c=ar&i=7247 Вынікі ператрусу на кватэры, дзе знаходзіцца маёмасьць «Бацькаўшчыны» — канфіскаваныя гістарычныя кнігі], Наша Ніва
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Category:Polish people of Belarusian descent
Category:20th-century Polish historians
Category:Polish male non-fiction writers