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⚫ '''Piotr Gontarczyk''' (born April 29, 1970 in ]) is a ] ] with a ] in history and political science.


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⚫ Gontarczyk is employed by the ] and specializes in the history of the Polish communist movement during ] and also in contemporary history. He is the author of several hundred articles and polemics in the scientific publications.
⚫ '''Piotr Gontarczyk''' (born 29 April 1970 in ], ]) is a ] ] with a ] in history and political science.

⚫ He is employed by the ]. He specializes in the ] history of the Polish communist movement, and in contemporary Polish history.


== Career == == Career ==
Piotr Gontarczyk studied journalism and political science at ], in 2003 receiving a doctorate for his thesis, ''The ]: The Road to Power, 1942-1945''.<ref> Baza "Ludzie nauki" portalu Nauka Polska 2003.</ref> In 2004 the thesis was honored with a ].<ref name="ipn.gov.pl">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ipn.gov.pl/portal/pl/328/4329/Dr_Piotr_Gontarczyk.html |title=Instytut Pamięci Narodowej |access-date=2018-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007211322/http://www.ipn.gov.pl/portal/pl/328/4329/Dr_Piotr_Gontarczyk.html |archive-date=2010-10-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


Gontarczyk has also studied at the ] Institute of History.<ref>Gontarczyk Piotr: Pogrom? Zajścia polsko-żydowskie w Przytyku 9 marca 1936 r. (biographical note), Rekonkwista - Rachocki i S-ka, 2000.</ref>
Gontarczyk finished studied at ] at the ], where in 2003 he defended his doctor's thesis 2003 titled ''Polish Workers Party. Path to rule in 1942-1945'' na temat ]<ref>{{ludzie nauki|122090}}</ref>. His work was awarded in 2004 with Award Jerzego Lojka<ref name="ipn.gov.pl"><nowiki>{{</nowiki><nowiki>}}</nowiki></ref>. He also studied at the ].


In the years 1998–2005 he worked in the office Commissioner for Public Interest, and worked together with the deputy commissioner, judge Krzysztof Kauba<ref>{</ref>. Since 2006 he was vice-director of Office of Archivization of Documents of ]. In September 2007 he was named Deputy Director of of Lustration Office at Institute of National Memory. In 1998–2005 he worked in the office of the Commissioner for the Public Interest with its deputy commissioner, Judge Krzysztof Kauba.<ref> ] 2010.</ref> Since 2006 he is vice-director of the Office of Archivization of Documents at the ].<ref> ] 2007.</ref> In September 2007 he was named deputy director of the Lustration Office at the Institute of National Remembrance.<ref> ] 2006.</ref>


⚫ In 2006 Gontarczyk identified ] (1925–2017) as a former agent, in 1945–53, of the Polish ].<ref>, Shaun Best, page 12.</ref>
Gontarczyk's work as a historian, researcher and political scientist comprises several books and numerous press articles as well as scientific papers.


Gontarczyk is a former member of the academic corporation, ''Respublica''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ixjtAAAAMAAJ&q=Gontarczyk+%22Respublica%22|title=Polityka|date=2006|publisher=Wydawn. Prasowe "Polityka"|language=pl}}</ref>
⚫ He authored hundreds of articles in such scholarly publications as ], ], ], ], ], Biuletyn Kwartalny Radomskiego Towarzystwa Naukowego, ] and scholarly publication ]. He also was published by numerous newspapers such as ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ],], ], ], ], ] and ]<ref>. ] 2007.</ref>.


In 2012 he criticized the Polish Foreign Ministry's recommendation of a book—''Inferno of Choices: Poles and the Holocaust'', about Polish antisemitism—as an act of incompetence which may tarnish Poland's reputation.<ref></ref><ref>, wpolityce, 7 August 2012</ref>
⚫ In 2006, Gontarczyk correctly identified ] as a former agent for the Polish secret service between 1945 and 1953.<ref>, Shaun Best, page 12</ref>


⚫ He has published articles in such scholarly publications as '']'', {{ill|Arcana (journal)|lt=''Arcana''|pl|Arcana (czasopismo)}}, '']'', '']'', '']'', ''Biuletyn Kwartalny Radomskiego Towarzystwa Naukowego'', '']'', and '']''. He has also been published in many newspapers such as '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', {{ill|Ozon (magazine)|lt=''Ozon''|pl|Ozon (tygodnik)}}, '']'', and '']''.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103141513/http://ipn.gov.pl/o-ipn/zyciorys/dr-piotr-gontarczyk/wykaz-publikacji |date=2014-01-03 }}. ] 2007.</ref>
He is a former member of academic corporation „Respublica”.


==Przytyk pogrom==
==Controversy over publication about Lech Walesa==
In 2000, Gontarczyk published a book about the ]: ''Pogrom? Zajścia polsko-żydowskie w Przytyku 9 marca 1936 r. Mity, fakty, dokumenty'' (Pogrom? The Polish-Jewish Events at ] on 9 March 1936: Myths, Facts, Documents). ], praises Gontarczyk for efforts aiming at describing in details the events, and his critical approach to press reports, but criticizes him for restricting sourcing to almost exclusively on Polish legal and administrative documentation, seeing Polish, Jewish and American publications as being based almost exclusively on the prewar Jewish press and on books published in the communist period. According to Tomaszewski, this rejection was irrational and wrong, narrowing the scope of information on the subject.<ref></ref>


==Jedwabne Pogrom==
⚫ In 2008 Gontarczyk and ] published a book, "''SB a Lech Wałęsa. Przyczynek do biografii''" ("''SB and Lech Wałęsa. Contribution to Biography''").While the book was not balanced, and gave the impression it was intended as political indictment rather than a solid work of scholarship, it caused a major controversy in Poland.<ref>, pages 406-7, Vladislav Zubok, CEU Press</ref><ref>]</ref> In their work, Dr. Gontarczyk and Dr. Cenckiewicz presented the argument that in the 1970s, the ] leader and former President of Poland ] was a secret ] of the Polish communist secret police - ] (SB).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2126507/Lech-Walesa-was-Communist-spy,-claims-book.html|title=Lech Walesa was Communist spy, claims book|work=Daily Telegraph|date=14 June 2008|accessdate=4 October 2008|author=Harry de Quetteville|place=Berlin}}</ref>
In 2001, Gontarczyk wrote that the earlier involvement of some Jews in ] atrocities during the ] Soviet occupation of ] cannot excuse the 10 July 1941 ], even if that involvement contributed to anti-Jewish violence.<ref name="Piotr Gontarczyk 2001">Piotr Gontarczyk, ''"Gross kontra fakty"'', ''Życie'', 28.02.2001.</ref> Gontarczyk criticized historian ]' 2001 book, '']'', describing the ]. Gontarczyk criticized Gross for giving different weight to witness statements based on the witnesses' ethnicities, for showing a lack of objectivity, and for treating witness statements as reliable solely on the basis of whether the witness had been at risk of becoming a Holocaust victim. According to Gontarczyk, this approach contravenes established procedure in history studies, where every statement should be judged objectively.<ref name="Piotr Gontarczyk 2001"/> He also pointed out that Gross ignored the relations that existed between Poland's Jewish and Polish populations under Soviet occupation.<ref name="Piotr Gontarczyk 2001"/> Gontarczyk placed responsibility for the Jedwabne pogrom at the doorstep of two criminal ideologies, ] and ], and supported the ] of the Jewish victims' bodies, which was opposed by many Jews on religious grounds.<ref>]<span>, "75 years after Jedwabne pogrom, Poland wrestles with evidence of complicity"</span>, '']'', 12 July 2016.</ref>


==Wałęsa controversy==
==Criticism==
⚫ In 2008, Gontarczyk and ] published a book, ''SB a Lech Wałęsa. Przyczynek do biografii'' (The ] and ]: Contributions toward a Biography). It caused a major controversy in Poland.<ref>, pages 406-7, Vladislav Zubok, CEU Press</ref><ref>]</ref> Gontarczyk and Cenckiewicz argued that in the 1970s the ] leader and later President of Poland ] was a secret ] of the Polish communist ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2126507/Lech-Walesa-was-Communist-spy,-claims-book.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080617132346/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2126507/Lech-Walesa-was-Communist-spy,-claims-book.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 June 2008|title=Lech Walesa was Communist spy, claims book|work=Daily Telegraph|date=14 June 2008|access-date=4 October 2008|author=Harry de Quetteville|place=Berlin}}</ref> ] wrote that the book should have been more nuanced in its judgments of anticommunist leaders, and that it unfairly singled out Wałęsa.<ref>, Michael Szporer, Lexington Books, 2012, p. 286.</ref> Professor Wlodzimierz Suleja named Gontaryczk's book as one of the most important biographies in recent historiography in Poland.<ref> Prof. M. Kornat: polska historiografia dziejów najnowszych funkcjonuje w warunkach wolności badań naukowych Nauka W Polsce 27.05.19</ref>
In 2000, Gontarczyk published ''Pogrom? Zajścia polsko-żydowskie w Przytyku 9 marca 1936 r. Mity, fakty, dokumenty'' about the ] in which he described the ]. It has been reviewed critically by Jacek Walicki who questioned Gontarczyk’s objectivity.<ref></ref> According to Jolanta Żyndul, Gontarczyk omitted all the facts that did not fit his thesis of "Polish-Jewish conflict".<ref></ref> According to ] Gontarczyk relied exclusively on Polish legal and administrative documentation, and dismissed all foreign publications, along with previous Polish ones, as propaganda, seeing Jewish and American publications as based almost exclusively on pre-war Jewish press and books published in Communist times. .<ref></ref> According to ], Gontarczyk implies Jews were responsible for anti-Jewish violence as they sought to defend themselves. Michlic sees Gontarczyk's work as a highly rationalized form of the entho-nationalist approach.<ref>, ], page 110-111, University of Nebraska Press</ref>

==Personal life==
Gontarczyk is married to Aneta Gontarczyk.<ref name="dziennik200907">, 8 July 2009 updated 9 June 2010, Dziennik</ref> In 2009 Ms. Gontarczyk, who had worked for the ] verification commission, had her security clearance revoked. According to Piotr Gontarczyk, this was political retribution by ]'s administration for Gontarczyk's book about ].<ref name="dziennik200907"/>


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Polish historian (born 1970)
Gontarczyk

Piotr Gontarczyk (born 29 April 1970 in Żyrardów, Poland) is a Polish historian with a doctorate in history and political science.

He is employed by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance. He specializes in the World War II history of the Polish communist movement, and in contemporary Polish history.

Career

Piotr Gontarczyk studied journalism and political science at Warsaw University, in 2003 receiving a doctorate for his thesis, The Polish Workers' Party: The Road to Power, 1942-1945. In 2004 the thesis was honored with a Jerzy Łojek Award.

Gontarczyk has also studied at the Warsaw University Institute of History.

In 1998–2005 he worked in the office of the Commissioner for the Public Interest with its deputy commissioner, Judge Krzysztof Kauba. Since 2006 he is vice-director of the Office of Archivization of Documents at the Institute of National Remembrance. In September 2007 he was named deputy director of the Lustration Office at the Institute of National Remembrance.

In 2006 Gontarczyk identified Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) as a former agent, in 1945–53, of the Polish Security Service.

Gontarczyk is a former member of the academic corporation, Respublica.

In 2012 he criticized the Polish Foreign Ministry's recommendation of a book—Inferno of Choices: Poles and the Holocaust, about Polish antisemitism—as an act of incompetence which may tarnish Poland's reputation.

He has published articles in such scholarly publications as Zeszyty Historyczne, Arcana [pl], Glaukopis, Dzieje Najnowsze, Zeszyty Historyczne WiN, Biuletyn Kwartalny Radomskiego Towarzystwa Naukowego, Biuletyn Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, and Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944–1989. He has also been published in many newspapers such as Życie, Rzeczpospolita, Gazeta Polska, Nasz Dziennik, Polityka, Gazeta Wyborcza, Uważam Rze, Do Rzeczy, Więź, Najwyższy Czas!, Tygodnik Solidarność, Ozon [pl], Wprost, and Życie Warszawy.

Przytyk pogrom

In 2000, Gontarczyk published a book about the Przytyk pogrom: Pogrom? Zajścia polsko-żydowskie w Przytyku 9 marca 1936 r. Mity, fakty, dokumenty (Pogrom? The Polish-Jewish Events at Przytyk on 9 March 1936: Myths, Facts, Documents). Jerzy Tomaszewski, praises Gontarczyk for efforts aiming at describing in details the events, and his critical approach to press reports, but criticizes him for restricting sourcing to almost exclusively on Polish legal and administrative documentation, seeing Polish, Jewish and American publications as being based almost exclusively on the prewar Jewish press and on books published in the communist period. According to Tomaszewski, this rejection was irrational and wrong, narrowing the scope of information on the subject.

Jedwabne Pogrom

In 2001, Gontarczyk wrote that the earlier involvement of some Jews in communist atrocities during the World War II Soviet occupation of Poland cannot excuse the 10 July 1941 Jedwabne pogrom, even if that involvement contributed to anti-Jewish violence. Gontarczyk criticized historian Jan T. Gross' 2001 book, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, describing the Jedwabne pogrom. Gontarczyk criticized Gross for giving different weight to witness statements based on the witnesses' ethnicities, for showing a lack of objectivity, and for treating witness statements as reliable solely on the basis of whether the witness had been at risk of becoming a Holocaust victim. According to Gontarczyk, this approach contravenes established procedure in history studies, where every statement should be judged objectively. He also pointed out that Gross ignored the relations that existed between Poland's Jewish and Polish populations under Soviet occupation. Gontarczyk placed responsibility for the Jedwabne pogrom at the doorstep of two criminal ideologies, Nazism and communism, and supported the exhumation of the Jewish victims' bodies, which was opposed by many Jews on religious grounds.

Wałęsa controversy

In 2008, Gontarczyk and Sławomir Cenckiewicz published a book, SB a Lech Wałęsa. Przyczynek do biografii (The Polish Security Service and Lech Wałęsa: Contributions toward a Biography). It caused a major controversy in Poland. Gontarczyk and Cenckiewicz argued that in the 1970s the Solidarity leader and later President of Poland Lech Wałęsa was a secret informant of the Polish communist Security Service. Michael Szporer wrote that the book should have been more nuanced in its judgments of anticommunist leaders, and that it unfairly singled out Wałęsa. Professor Wlodzimierz Suleja named Gontaryczk's book as one of the most important biographies in recent historiography in Poland.

Personal life

Gontarczyk is married to Aneta Gontarczyk. In 2009 Ms. Gontarczyk, who had worked for the Military Intelligence Services verification commission, had her security clearance revoked. According to Piotr Gontarczyk, this was political retribution by Donald Tusk's administration for Gontarczyk's book about Lech Wałęsa.

Books

References

  1. dr Piotr Gontarczyk Baza "Ludzie nauki" portalu Nauka Polska 2003.
  2. "Instytut Pamięci Narodowej". Archived from the original on 2010-10-07. Retrieved 2018-05-19.
  3. Gontarczyk Piotr: Pogrom? Zajścia polsko-żydowskie w Przytyku 9 marca 1936 r. (biographical note), Rekonkwista - Rachocki i S-ka, 2000.
  4. "Sąd cenzuruje historyków" Rzeczpospolita 2010.
  5. Informacja o zmianach na stanowiskach kierowniczych Instytut Pamięci Narodowej 2007.
  6. Wszystko o lustracji Kwaśniewskiego Wprost 2006.
  7. Zygmunt Bauman: Why Good People do Bad Things, Shaun Best, page 12.
  8. Polityka (in Polish). Wydawn. Prasowe "Polityka". 2006.
  9. Behr, Valentin. "Genèse et usages d’une politique publique de l’histoire. La «politique historique» en Pologne." Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest 46.46-3 (2015): 21-48.
  10. Gontarczyk o "Inferno of Choices": to obraz będący raczej pochodną niekompetencji i nieodpowiedzialności MSZ, a nie stanu wiedzy, wpolityce, 7 August 2012
  11. Wykaz publikacji P. Gontarczyk z 2007 roku Archived 2014-01-03 at the Wayback Machine. IPN 2007.
  12. Przegląd Historyczny, 2001, no. 2, pp. 259-61.
  13. ^ Piotr Gontarczyk, "Gross kontra fakty", Życie, 28.02.2001.
  14. Cnaan Lipshiz, "75 years after Jedwabne pogrom, Poland wrestles with evidence of complicity", Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 12 July 2016.
  15. Totalitarian Societies and Democratic Transition: Essays in memory of Victor Zaslavsky, pages 406-7, Vladislav Zubok, CEU Press
  16. Wikinews: Row over Lech Wałęsa's alleged collaboration with communists escalates
  17. Harry de Quetteville (14 June 2008). "Lech Walesa was Communist spy, claims book". Daily Telegraph. Berlin. Archived from the original on 17 June 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
  18. Solidarity: The Great Workers Strike of 1980, Michael Szporer, Lexington Books, 2012, p. 286.
  19. Prof. M. Kornat: polska historiografia dziejów najnowszych funkcjonuje w warunkach wolności badań naukowych Nauka W Polsce 27.05.19
  20. ^ Historyk IPN: Urzędnicy Tuska łamią prawo, 8 July 2009 updated 9 June 2010, Dziennik
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