After
World War II, Tomasz Strzembosz was persecuted by the
Polish People's Republic government's
Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (Security Office). In the mid-1950s,
Stalinist Poland he was prevented from obtaining a
master's degree and was repeatedly laid off from work. Strzembosz was one of the few Polish People's Republic historians who refused to write Soviet-inspired falsehoods about Poland's history. His main areas of research included the history of the
World War II Polish Underground State, with special emphasis on German-occupied
Warsaw; the Polish partisan movement in the
Kresy macroregion between 1939 and 1941, following the
Soviet invasion of Poland; and the 1944–46
anti-communist resistance in Poland. In the 1980s, Strzembosz was an activist in the
anti-communist Solidarity movement. In 1989–93, he was president of the
Polish Scouting Association (photo). Strzembosz authored a dozen books and over 100 scholarly papers. He also edited or reviewed over a dozen works by other authors. In 2002, he received Poland's Prize. ==Family ==