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Dr Hubert Zawadzki – Captivity, Military Service and Survival: My Parents’ Wartime Story 1939-1945
26th June 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Dr Hubert Zawadzki was born in 1946 in Scotland to Polish parents who came to Britain with the Polish Armed Forces during the second world war. Until the age of eleven, he lived in various Polish resettlement camps in Britain.
Dr Zawadzki read modern history at Keble College (1964-67). In 1973 he obtained a doctorate in Polish and Russian history at Wolfson College where he was also a Junior Research Fellow (1973-76).
He taught history for 30 years at Abingdon School while continuing with his academic work– and this he has continued since his retirement from teaching in 2006. He has retained his long association with Wolfson College.
Dr Zawadzki is author of a monograph on Adam Czartoryski as a statesman of Russia and Poland and co-author (with Prof. Jerzy Lukowski) of A Concise History of Poland which has been translated into seven languages. He has also translated and edited his mother’s memoirs: Irena Protassewicz, A Polish Woman’s Experience in World War II: Conflict, Deportation and Exile.
He a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Member of the Polish Society of Arts and Sciences Abroad (London).