Tadeusz Piotrowski (sociologist)

Born in the Volhynia region of occupied Poland, Piotrowski emigrated with his family in August 1943.The UNH News for Faculty and Staff: Campus Journal, [http://www.unh.edu/news/campusjournal/archive/2004/january/011604learning.html Thaddeus Piotrowski’s fifth major work.] Higher Learning, January 16, 2004 Edition.John Walters, [http://www.nhpr.org/node/3868 "Eastern Europe and Western Indians".] New Hampshire Public Radio, October 3, 2002.^{[Forced redirect.]}

In 1973 he earned his PhD degree in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

Piotrowski taught courses at the University of New Hampshire in anthropology and the Holocaust.McFarland Publishing, [https://archive.today/20120906041838/http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4252-2 Thaddeus Piotrowski. About the Author.] {{ISBN|978-0-7864-4252-2}}.

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Poland’s Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918–1947, first published in 1998, concerns the topic of Poland's history in the interwar period as well as in World War II, with particular focus on the uneasy relations between various ethnic groups of the Second Polish Republic.{{Cite journal |last=Friedrich |first=Klaus-Peter |date=1999 |title=Tadeusz Piotrowski, Poland's Holocaust. Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947 |url=https://www.zfo-online.de/index.php/zfo/article/view/6931 |journal=Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung |language=de |volume=48 |issue=2 |pages=277–279}}{{Cite journal |last=Cienciala |first=Anna M. |date=June 2001 |title=Tadeusz Piotrowski, Poland's Holocaust. Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918–1947. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1998, 437 pp. + maps, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, index. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/abs/tadeusz-piotrowski-polands-holocaust-ethnic-strife-collaboration-with-occupying-forces-and-genocide-in-the-second-republic-19181947-jefferson-nc-mcfarland-company-1998-437-pp-maps-tables-notes-appendices-bibliography-index/C9EAA602710DD34E2BA3E3E0BC54ADBD |journal=Nationalities Papers |language=en |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=361–363 |doi=10.1017/S0090599200019802 |s2cid=165408276 |issn=0090-5992|url-access=subscription }}

Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn, first published in 2000, concerns the topic of massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia during WWII. Bogdan Musiał, reviewing for Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung in 2001, found it to be an unbiased and informative work; however, he noted that there was a lack of engagement with the historical and political context of the events.{{Cite journal |last=Musial |first=Bogdan |date=2001-03-22 |title=Genocide and Rescue in Wołyń. Recollections of the Ukrainian Nationalist Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Against the Poles During World War II |url=https://www.zfo-online.de/portal/index.php/zfo/article/view/7546 |journal=Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung |language=de |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=300–301 |doi=10.25627/20015027546}}

The Polish Deportees of World War II, first published in 2004, concerns the topic of mass deportations of Poles following the Soviet invasion and occupation of Eastern Poland in 1939. Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann in her review of this book for the Journal of Cold War Studies wrote that the book is "an excellent teaching tool" that "will likely be of great interest" to scholars interested in either modern history of that region or the topic of forced migrations.{{Cite journal |last=Jaroszyñska-Kirchmann |first=Anna D. |date=2007 |title=Review of The Polish Deportees of World War II: Recollections of Removal to the Soviet Union and Dispersal throughout the World |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26926006 |journal=Journal of Cold War Studies |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=155–157 |doi=10.1162/jcws.2007.9.1.155 |jstor=26926006 |issn=1520-3972|url-access=subscription }} Gifford Malone, a US diplomat writing in History: Reviews of New Books, found the volume to be a well written and moving account.{{Cite journal |last=Malone |first=Gifford |date=2004-01-01 |title=The Polish Deportees of World War II: Recollections of Removal to the Soviet Union and Dispersal Throughout the World |journal=History: Reviews of New Books |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=30 |doi=10.1080/03612759.2004.10526424 |issn=0361-2759 |s2cid=142655637}}{{Cite journal |last=Cienciala |first=Anna M. |date=2009-05-29 |title=An Unknown Page of History: The Poles Deported to the USSR in 1940–1941 |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/13518040902918527 |journal=The Journal of Slavic Military Studies |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=301–314 |doi=10.1080/13518040902918527 |s2cid=145529414 |issn=1351-8046|url-access=subscription }}

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Piotr Wróbel considers Piotrowski's works to be "highly polemical and controversial", similar to those by Richard C. Lukas and Marek Jan Chodakiewicz.{{Cite journal |last=Wróbel |first=Piotr |date=2015-04-04 |title=The Eagle Unbowed. Poland and the Poles in the Second World War by Halik Kochanski (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/60/article/578315 |journal=Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies |language=en |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=151–153 |doi=10.1353/sho.2015.0014 |issn=1534-5165 |s2cid=143910948|url-access=subscription }} According to Ukrainian historian Andrii Bolianovskyi, Piotrowski's studies on the Ukrainian-Polish ethnic conflicts rely unilaterally on the way they were conceived and presented by Polish right-wing politicians and the underground press during World War II.{{cite journal |last=Bolianovskyi |first=Andrii |date=2021-03-30 |title=Historiography of confrontation between Polish and Ukrainian underground forces during the years of the German-Soviet war: Main tendencies of interpretation of the events in Poland |url=http://eehb.dspu.edu.ua/article/view/226505 |journal=East European Historical Bulletin |issue=18 |page=244 |doi=10.24919/2519-058X.18.226505 |issn=2664-2735 |s2cid=233608097|doi-access=free }}

Piotrowski's major books include:[http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-2913-4 McFarland Publishing, Poland’s Holocaust, description.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604041802/http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-2913-4 |date=2011-06-04 }}The American Institute of Polish Culture, Miami, [http://www.ampolinstitute.org/ip.asp?op=GoldMedal&m=x2000Activities "Gold Medal Awards" 1987-2009] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612043814/http://www.ampolinstitute.org/ip.asp?op=GoldMedal&m=x2000Activities |date=2011-06-12 }}

• Vengeance of the Swallows: Memoir of a Polish Family's Ordeal Under Soviet Aggression, Ukrainian Ethnic Cleansing and Nazi Enslavement, and Their Emigration to America (1995), McFarland & Company, {{ISBN|978-0-7864-0001-0}}
• Poland's Holocaust (1998, 2006), McFarland, {{ISBN|978-0-7864-2913-4}}, {{ISBN|0-7864-0371-3}}
• Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn (2000, 2009), McFarland, {{ISBN|978-0-7864-4245-4}}, {{ISBN|0-7864-0773-5}}
• The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New England (2002, 2009), McFarland, {{ISBN|0-7864-4252-2}}, {{ISBN|0-7864-1098-1}}
• The Polish Deportees of World War II (2004, 2008), McFarland, {{ISBN|978-0-7864-3258-5}}, {{ISBN|0-7864-1847-8}}.

• The Cultural Achievement Award from the American Council for Polish Culture
• The Literary Award of the Polish Sociocultural Centre of the Polish Library in London
• Gold Medal Award for "promoting Polish history and culture", bestowed by the American Institute of Polish Culture at the 35th International Polonaise Ball in Miami.University of New Hampshire at Manchester, {{cite web|url= http://www.unhm.unh.edu/pdf/campusconnections/cc-feb2007.pdf |title=Campus Connections: "Faculty News", February 2007 }} {{small|(161 KB)}} Polish American Historical Association, {{cite web|url= http://www.polishamericanstudies.org/pdf/spring07.pdf |title="Personalia", Volume 64, Number 1, April 2007 }} {{small|(1.08 MB)}} 

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