Piotrowski, Tadeusz (Thaddeus)

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PIOTROWSKI, Tadeusz (Thaddeus)

PIOTROWSKI, Tadeusz (Thaddeus). American (born Poland), b. 1940. Genres: History, Sociology. Career: Archbishop Ryan High School, Philadelphia, PA, teacher of Spanish and English literature and chair of foreign language department, 1968-71; University of New Hampshire at Manchester, Manchester, professor of sociology, 1972-; visiting professor at institutions in the US, Poland, and Canada. Publications: HISTORY: 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 (autobiography), 1995; Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918-1947, 1998; Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn: Recollections of the Ukrainian Nationalist Ethnic Cleansing Campaign against the Poles during World War II, 2000; The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New England, 2002. Author of a series of monographs on the ethnic history of Manchester, New Hampshire, for the New Hampshire Council for the Humanities. Contributor to books and periodicals. Address: University of New Hampshire at Manchester, 400 Commercial St, Manchester, NH 03101, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]