Born in 1971, Frank Grelka studied Eastern European History and Media
Sciences at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany and Jagellonian
University of Cracow, Poland. During his academic and research visits to
The United States of America, Canada, Ukraine and Poland, he gained a
solid knowledge of archive research methodology.
As a result of continuous demand for historic resources from Eastern
European archives, he founded the HRA company in 2003.Main points of
research:
- Jewish, Polish and German family research in Middle Eastern Europe
- German-Polish and German-Ukrainian relations in 19th and 20th
century
- German occupation history in Middle Eastern Europe during the
first and second world war
- Polish and Ukrainian nationalism and interethnic violence in
Middle Eastern Europe
- Emigrants from Middle Eastern Europe to The United States of
America and Canada
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Publications: Zehn Jahre St. Hedwig-Stiftung Partnerschaften
Dortmund-Breslau 1991 – 2001. Ein Beispiel bewährter Solidarität –
deutsche Hilfe und polnische Selbsthilfe, Dortmund 2001.
The forming of an ethnic identity of Ukrainian immigrants to Canada
and the U.S. 1870 to 1914, in: "Etnichna istoria narodiv Evropy",
Zbirnyk Kyїvs'koho universytetu im. T. Shevchenko, Kyїv 2003.
Ukrainizacja w dobie podporządkowania ras. Ukraiński Centralny
Komitet w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie w latach 1939-1941, in: Biuletyn
Ukrainoznawczy 8 (2002).
Selbständigkeitsbestrebungen und Besatzungsherrschaft. Eine
vergleichende Studie zur Geschichte der ukrainischen Nationalbewegung im
Kontext der deutschen Besatzung 1918 und 1941/42, [Dissertation], Bochum
2003.
“Antypolska akcja” OUN-UPA 1943 - 1944 jako paradygmat dla
polsko-ukraińskich stosunków 1918 - 1944, in: Pamięć i sprawiedliwość, 4
(2004). |
