Arūnas Bubnys is a Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

n historian and archivist. He started his studies at Vilnius University

Vilnius University

Vilnius University is the oldest university in the Baltic states and one of the oldest in Eastern Europe. It is also the largest university in Lithuania....

 in 1985. In 1993 he received a Ph.D for the thesis Lietuvių antinacinė rezistencija 1941–1944 m. (Lithuanian Anti-Nazi Resistance 1941-1944).

From 1985 on he worked in the Lithuanian Institute of History

Lithuanian Institute of History

The Lithuanian Institute of History is a state-funded research institution in Lithuania. Governed by national law, it is the country's main institution of history research, concentrating mostly on the history of Lithuania and its neighbouring states....

. In 1993-1998 he was the director of Lithuanian Special Archives

Lithuanian Special Archives

Lithuanian Special Archives is an archive in Lithuania for the storage of documents from the period 1940-1991. Numerous KGB and Lithuanian SSR Ministry of Interior documents were left in Lithuania after it gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, and are now held here...

. Currently, he works at the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania

Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania

The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania is a state research institute in Lithuania dedicated to investigation of the crimes against humanity and other persecutions during the Soviet and Nazi occupations , including mass deportations, the Holocaust in Lithuania, and annihilation of...

and is a member of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania.

Fields of interest

• Nazi politics in occupied Lithuania
• Lithuanian resistance against Nazi
• Polish underground in Lithuania 1941-1944

Major works

• Lenkų pogrindis Lietuvoje 1939–1940 m. (Polish Underground in Lithuania 1939-1940), Vilnius, 1994.
• Lietuvių antinacinė rezistencija 1941–1944 m. (Lithuanian Anti-Nazi Resistance 1941-1944), Vilnius, 1991.
• Vokiečių okupuota Lietuva (1941–1944) (Lithuania, Occupied by Germans (1941-1944)), Vilnius, 1998.