Jerzy Turonek

Dr. Jerzy Turonek (Belarusian: Юры Туронак, Jury Turonak, born April 26, 1929) is a Polish-Belarusian historian and notable member of the Belarusian minority in Poland.

He was born in Dukshty into the family of a notable West Belarusian political activist Branislau Turonak.

In 1952 he graduated from the Higher School for Planning and Statistics in Warsaw 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 Geneve.

Since early 1960s Jerzy Turonek started active historical researches on 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 Doctor of History.

Works

• Białoruś pod okupacją niemiecką (Belarus under German occupation, Warsaw, 1993),
• Wacław Iwanowski i odrodzenie Białorusi (Vatslau Ivanouski 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))^[1]

References

1. ^ Вынікі ператрусу на кватэры, дзе знаходзіцца маёмасьць «Бацькаўшчыны» — канфіскаваныя гістарычныя кнігі, Наша Ніва

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