Elżbieta Trela-Mazur
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Elżbieta Trela-Mazur | |
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| Born | 1947 (age 78–79) [1] |
| Occupation | Professor of Opole University |
| Known for | History of territories 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 at Opole University, specializing in political history of modern world with emphasis on the history of Germany, Russia and the Soviet Union; totalitarianism, Sovietization of the Eastern Borderlands, Polish diaspora (Polonia) in Europe and elsewhere, as well as Central and Eastern Europe in general.[2]
In 1973–89 Trela-Mazur worked at the WSP Institute of History (Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna) in Opole, and in 1990–2004 at the Akademia Świętokrzyska in Kielce, 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 work Education among Polish children in the Soviet Union in the years 1941-1946; awarded First Prize in Doctoral Thesis for the year 1979 by the Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Technology.[2]
Trela-Mazur obtained her post-doctoral degree in 1999 at the University of Opole for dissertation titled Sovietization 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 the Second Polish Republic she 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 the collapse of the Soviet empire in 1989.[2]
