Tadeusz Piotrowski orThaddeus Piotrowski (born 10 February 1940) is aPolish-American sociologist and author.

He is a professor of sociology in the Social Science Division of theUniversity of New Hampshire at Manchester, inManchester, New Hampshire.^[1]

Born in theVolhynia region ofoccupied Poland, Piotrowski emigrated with his family in August 1943.^[2][3]

In 1973 he earned hisPhD degree insociology from theUniversity of Pennsylvania.^[1]

Piotrowski taught courses at the University of New Hampshire inanthropology and theHolocaust.^[4]

Poland’s Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918–1947, first published in 1998, concerns the topic ofPoland's history in the interwar period as well asin World War II, with particular focus on the uneasy relations between variousethnic groups of theSecond Polish Republic.^[5][6]

Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn, first published in 2000, concerns the topic ofmassacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia during WWII.Bogdan Musiał, reviewing forZeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung in 2001, found it to be an unbiased and informative work; however, he noted that there was a lack of engagement with the historical and political context of the events.^[7]

The Polish Deportees of World War II, first published in 2004, concerns the topic ofmass deportations of Poles following theSoviet invasion andoccupation of Eastern Poland in 1939. Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann in her review of this book for theJournal of Cold War Studies wrote that the book is "an excellent teaching tool" that "will likely be of great interest" to scholars interested in either modern history of that region or the topic of forced migrations.^[8] Gifford Malone, a US diplomat writing inHistory: Reviews of New Books, found the volume to be a well written and moving account.^[9][10]

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Piotr Wróbel considers Piotrowski's works to be "highly polemical and controversial", similar to those byRichard C. Lukas andMarek Jan Chodakiewicz.^[11] According to Ukrainian historianAndrii Bolianovskyi, Piotrowski's studies on the Ukrainian-Polish ethnic conflicts rely unilaterally on the way they were conceived and presented by Polish right-wing politicians and the underground press during World War II.^[12]

Piotrowski's major books include:^[13][14]

• Vengeance of the Swallows: Memoir of a Polish Family's Ordeal Under Soviet Aggression, Ukrainian Ethnic Cleansing and Nazi Enslavement, and Their Emigration to America (1995),McFarland & Company,ISBN 978-0-7864-0001-0
• Poland's Holocaust (1998, 2006), McFarland,ISBN 978-0-7864-2913-4,ISBN 0-7864-0371-3
• Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn (2000, 2009), McFarland,ISBN 978-0-7864-4245-4,ISBN 0-7864-0773-5
• The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New England (2002, 2009), McFarland,ISBN 0-7864-4252-2,ISBN 0-7864-1098-1
• The Polish Deportees of World War II (2004, 2008), McFarland,ISBN 978-0-7864-3258-5,ISBN 0-7864-1847-8.

• 1995: The Cultural Achievement Award from theAmerican Council for Polish Culture^[1] for hisVengeance of the Swallows^[15][16]
• 1999: The Literary Award of the Polish Sociocultural Centre of the Polish Library in London^[1][16]
• 2007: Gold Medal Award for "promoting Polish history and culture", bestowed by the American Institute of Polish Culture at the 35th International Polonaise Ball in Miami.^[17][18]
• Interpreter of Perennial Wisdom Award from the Monuments Conservancy of New York^[1]

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