We are very pleased to inform you that the Managing Director of the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe, Robert Żurek, has been awarded a postdoctoral degree in history. The degree was conferred by a resolution of the Council of the History Discipline of the Pedagogical University in Cracow on 16.12.2020 on the basis of his scientific achievement "The Roman Catholic Church in Poland and the Western and Northern Lands 1945-1948". The habilitation diploma is dated 11 June 2021.
Robert Zurek is a graduate in history and Catholic theology from the Free University of Berlin. He received his doctorate in Halle. He was a scholarship holder at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw (2003-2005) and then a researcher and deputy director of the Center for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin (2006-2012). From 2013 to 2016 he was director of the Wrocław branch of the Institute of National Remembrance.
Robert Żurek has published two monographs and numerous scientific and popular science articles. Moreover, he is the author or co-author of two volumes of interviews with witnesses of the time, a script for several exhibitions and exhibition catalogues, a documentary film and a radio play. His research interests focus on Polish-German relations in the 20th century, especially the reconciliation process after World War II.
