2024 | Grzegorz Hryciuk "Przesiedleńcy. Wielka epopeja Polaków 1944–1946" - Instytut Pileckiego

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2024 | Grzegorz Hryciuk "Przesiedleńcy. Wielka epopeja Polaków 1944–1946"

Grzegorz Hryciuk’s book, Przesiedleńcy. Wielka epopeja Polaków 1944–1946, was recognized by the Awards Committee of the Pilecki Award as the best publication of 2024 on the Polish experience of confrontation with two totalitarian systems in the 20th centur

The book, which won in the “Academic history book” category, takes a close look at the subject of forced resettlement from the Eastern Borderlands to the Western Territories, which began at the end of the Second World War and affected as many as 800,000 Poles. Grzegorz Hryciuk portrays the drama of people forced to leave their little homeland and set off into the unknown, to a foreign place that, after a journey of many weeks in cattle cars, was to become their new home. The book is an analysis of an important chapter – albeit one often plagued by misconceptions – of Central and Eastern European history, and at the same time a universal story about loss and building one’s life anew.

Grzegorz Hryciuk collects the award at the Witold Pilecki International Book Award ceremony in October 2024.

Dr hab. Grzegorz Hryciuk, Professor at the University of Wrocław, a historian whose research interests focus on issues of nationality in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of Ukraine and Polish-Ukrainian relations in the 20th century, and forced migrations in Eastern Europe. He is the author of more than 200 academic publications, including the following monographs: Polacy we Lwowie w latach 1939–1944. Życie codzienne; Przemiany narodowościowe i ludnościowe w Galicji Wschodniej i na Wołyniu w latach 1931–1948; Przesiedleńcy. Wielka epopeja Polaków 1944–1946.

 

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