Elżbieta Trela-Mazur

Elżbieta Trela-Mazur
Front cover ofPowojenne losy inteligencji kresowej by Elżbieta Trela-Mazuret al.
Born	1947 (age 76–77)
Nationality	Polish
Occupation	Professor ofOpole University
Known for	History ofterritories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union

Elżbieta Trela-Mazur(born 1947) is a Polish historian, author, Doctor of Humanities in contemporary history, and Professor in the Department of International Relations atOpole University,specializing in political history of modern world with emphasis on the history of Germany, Russia and the Soviet Union; totalitarianism, Sovietization of theEastern Borderlands,Polish diaspora(Polonia) in Europe and elsewhere, as well as Central and Eastern Europe in general.

Professional career

In 1973–89 Trela-Mazur worked at the WSP Institute of History (Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna) inOpole,and in 1990–2004 at theAkademia ŚwiętokrzyskainKielce,as well as in Brussels (1998-2003). Since 2004 she has served at the Opole University Institute of Political Science. Trela-Mazur received her degree of Doctor of Humanities in 1979 for the workEducation among Polish children in the Soviet Union in the years 1941-1946;awarded First Prize in Doctoral Thesis for the year 1979 by theMinistry of Science, Higher Education and Technology.

Trela-Mazur obtained her post-doctoral degree in 1999 at the University of Opole for dissertation titledSovietization of education in eastern Lesser Poland under Soviet occupation from 1939 to 1941.The work earned Trela-Mazur an Achievement Award from WSP. In her scientific and archival research into history of Polish education in the eastern part of theSecond Polish Republicshe travelled to Leningrad in 1981 and to Lviv in 1996. Trela-Mazur wrote over a dozen articles on the fate of the Polish community in Western Europe as well, following thecollapse of the Soviet empirein 1989.

Powojenne losy

Trela-Mazur is the author of a compendium of postwar history of Polish intelligentsia from the eastern territories of Poland (known asKresy), which were incorporated into the Soviet Union byJoseph Stalinat the end of World War II. The book,Powojenne losy inteligencjii kresowej(Postwar History of the Kresy Intelligentsia), is a result of conference held in November 2005 inOpole,in which 16 notable writers and academics participated. The monograph, composed of articles resulting from their research, is focused on specific regions ofKresy,includingWilno Voivodeship (1926–1939),Polesie Voivodeship,andWołyń Voivodeship (1921–39).Apparently, the most notable paradox of theflight and expulsion of Polesfrom the Kresymacroregionwas the fact that following border shift, the eastern spirit was revived mainly in the westernmost part ofnew Poland.Contributing writers included S. Czerkas, J. Duda, E. Dworzak, A. Guzik, A. Hanich, P. Harupa, J. Hickiewicz, A. Hlebowicz, H. Stroński, Stanisław Vincenz, A. Wierciński, A. Wolny, and Elżbieta Trela-Mazur.

Books

• Elżbieta Trela-Mazur,Polskie placówki oświatowe i wychowawcze w Związku Radzieckim w latach 1943-1946: liczebność i rozmieszczenie(book), 5 editions, 1981,OCLC609460851
• Elżbieta Trela-Mazur,Edukacja dzieci polskich w Związku Radzieckim w latach 1941-1946(book), 5 editions, 1983,OCLC17919580
• Elżbieta Trela-Mazur,Sowietyzacja oświaty w Małopolsce Wschodniej pod radziecką okupacją 1939-1941(book), 3 editions, 1998 in Polish and in Russian translation,OCLC237334907
• Elżbieta Trela-Mazur (with) Maria Kalczyńska & Krystyna Rostocka,Kresowianie na śląsku opolskim / Eastern borderland expatriates in Opole Silesia(book), 2 editions, 2011,OCLC841094385
• Elżbieta Trela-Mazur,Powojenne losy inteligencji kresowej: materiały z konferencji naukowej, Opole 18-19 listopada 2005 roku(book), 1 edition, 2007,OCLC750112292
• Elżbieta Trela-Mazur,Problemy bezpieczeństwa współczesnego świata(book), 2 editions, 2009,OCLC751246585
• Elżbieta Trela-Mazur,Małopolska Wschodnia po 17 września 1939 roku: sowietyzacja - wybrane zagadnienia(book), 1 edition, 1998,OCLC922228462