Dr Maciej Wyrwa
PhD. in history, graduate of Eastern Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He completed a scientific internship at the Eurasian L.N. Gumilev National University in Astana, during which he conducted field research among Kazakh Poles. He completed postgraduate studies in museum studies at the University of Warsaw.
He worked at the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Repression and at the KARTA Centre Foundation, where he was responsible for the ‘Index of the Repressed’ programme and the International Belarusian Archive. Head of the Research and Scholarship Programmes Department of the Mieroszewski Centre.
Specialises in research on the history of Soviet repression against Poles and issues of historical memory. Author of, inter alia, works Unfound victims of Katyn? List of missing persons in the area of north-eastern provinces of the Second Republic of Poland from 17 September 1939 to June 1940; Katyn. Przewodnik szlakiem Zbrodni (Katyn. A Guide to the Crime Trail) (with J. Rogoża); NKVD ‘Polish Operation’ 1937-1938 against the background of repressions against Poles in the Belarusian SSR (co-authors: A. Smalianczuk, A. Wialiki).
Originator and co-author of the Internet portals www.katynpromemoria.pl, www.operacja-polska.pl and the database www.ofiaryterroru.pl.