Dariusz Libionka born in 1963 in Bielsko-Biała

Bielsko-Biała

-Economy and Industry:Nowadays Bielsko-Biała is one of the best-developed parts of Poland. It was ranked 2nd best city for business in that country by Forbes. About 5% of people are unemployed . Bielsko-Biała is famous for its textile, machine-building, and especially automotive industry...

 is a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 historian focused on the status of Jewish citizens in the Polish Republic

Polish Republic

Polish Republic may refer to:* First Polish Republic: applied in hindsight to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, an elective monarchy also called Noble Republic...

, matters of Judaism

Judaism

Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...

 and the Polish-Jewish relations.

Libionka is affiliated with the Institute of National Remembrance

Institute of National Remembrance

Institute of National Remembrance — Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation is a Polish government-affiliated research institute with lustration prerogatives and prosecution powers founded by specific legislation. It specialises in the legal and historical sciences and...

 in Lublin

Lublin

Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

. He graduated from the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) and the School for Social Science of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Polish Academy of Sciences

The Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw, is one of two Polish institutions having the nature of an academy of sciences.-History:...

.

Since 1994 Libionka worked in the Polish Contemporary History Section of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences and, since 2000, in the Bureau of Public Education of the Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamieci Narodowej) in Lublin

Lublin

Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

. His articles appeared in „Dzieje Najnowsze”, „Biuletyn ŻIH”, „Polska 1944/1945-1999”, and in „Yad Vashem Studies”. In 1998 he wrote Ph.D dissertation entitled "The 'Jewish Question' in Polish catholic Press in the 1930s", currently prepared for publication.

Publications

• "Polska ludność chrześcijańska wobec eksterminacji Żydów – dystrykt lubelski" (Polish -Christian Population and the Nazi Extermination of Jews in Lublin District)
• Armia Krajowa i Delegatura Rządu wobec eksterminacji Żydów; Kościół katolicki, antysemityzm, Zagłada (The Home Army, the Delegatura and the Holocaust; The Catholic Church, antisemitism and the Holocaust)
• „Aktion Reinhardt” The Extermination of the Jews in the General Government
  General Government
  The General Government was an area of Second Republic of Poland under Nazi German rule during World War II; designated as a separate region of the Third Reich between 1939–1945...
  
  ; editor

Research interests

Polish-Jewish Relations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Poles and the Holocaust, history of Poland after 1945.

Articles

• Kwestia żydowska – myślenie za pomocą clichés. Przypadek “Odrodzenia” 1935-1939, „Dzieje Najnowsze” 1995, nr 3.

• The Catholic Church in Poland and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 [in] The Holocaust and the Christian World, ed. C. Ritter, S. D. Smith, I. Steinfeld, London 2000.

• Die Kirche in Polen und der Mord an den Juden im Licht der polnischen Publizistik und Historiographie nach 1945, „Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa – Forschung“ 2002, nr 2.

• Obcy, wrodzy, niebezpieczni. Obraz Żydów i „kwestii żydowskiej” na łamach prasy inteligencji katolickiej w latach trzydziestych, „Kwartalnik Historii Żydów” 2002, nr 3.

• Brakujące ogniwo. Sowiecka literatura antysyjonistyczna w Polsce przed i po Marcu 1968 [in] Komunizm. Ideologia , system, ludzie, edited by T. Szarota, Warszawa 2001.

• Duchowieństwo diecezji łomżyńskiej wobec antysemityzmu i zagłady Żydów [in] Wokół Jedwabnego, edited by P. Machcewicz and Krzysztof Persak, Warszawa 2002.

See also

• History of Jews in Poland
• Chronology of Jewish Polish history
  Chronology of Jewish Polish history
  The history of the Jews in Poland is outlined in events below.960 A Jewish merchant from Spain, Ibrahim Ibn Jaqub , travels to Poland and writes the first description of the country. Jewish traders are very active in Central Europe...
  
  
• Kraków pogrom
  Kraków pogrom
  The Kraków pogrom refers to the events that occurred on August 11, 1945, in the city of Kraków, Poland, which resulted in one dead and five wounded victims.-Background:...
  
  
• Culture of Kraków
  Culture of Kraków
  Kraków is considered by many to be the cultural capital of Poland. It was named the European Capital of Culture by European Union for the year 2000. The city has some of the best museums in the country and several famous theaters...
  
  
• World War II atrocities in Poland
  World War II atrocities in Poland
  Approximately six million Polish citizens, divided nearly equally between non-Jewish and Jewish, perished during World War II. Most were civilians killed by the actions of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and their allies. At the Nuremberg Tribunal, three categories were established. These categories...