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oapen-20.500.12657-608422024-03-27T14:15:06Z Marek Thee: My Story Thee, Marek Gleditsch, Nils Petter Tønnesson, Stein Erdal, Marta Bivand The Holocaust Palestine The Indochina wars Poland under communism Peace research Human rights Military research and development The arms race Disarmament and development Anti-semitism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights Marek Thee was a Jewish Polish journalist, scholar, and activist. This book tells his life from narrowly escaping death in the Holocaust to exile in Palestine, where he became attached to the Polish consular service. On his return to Poland in 1950, he worked for the Foreign Ministry and later for the Polish Institute for International Affairs. He served as Head of the Polish delegation to the International Control Commission in Indochina in the late 1950s. In 1968 he lost his job and his Polish citizenship in a nationalistic and antisemitic campaign. He was able to move to Norway where he worked for twenty years at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), editing an international quarterly journal, Bulletin of Peace Proposals and doing research on the arms race. In retirement, he continued his research and writing at the Norwegian Human Rights Institute. The book vividly relates the drama of his life in Poland, Palestine, Indochina, and Norway. This is an open access book. 2023-01-20T16:54:42Z 2023-01-20T16:54:42Z 2023 book ONIX_20230120_9783031169052_43 9783031169052 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60842 eng SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-16905-2.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-16905-2 Springer Nature Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-031-16905-2 10.1007/978-3-031-16905-2 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 9d3d37ab-8554-4806-987d-2ea57d1da612 9783031169052 Springer International Publishing 32 110 Cham [...] open access
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Marek Thee was a Jewish Polish journalist, scholar, and activist. This book tells his life from narrowly escaping death in the Holocaust to exile in Palestine, where he became attached to the Polish consular service. On his return to Poland in 1950, he worked for the Foreign Ministry and later for the Polish Institute for International Affairs. He served as Head of the Polish delegation to the International Control Commission in Indochina in the late 1950s. In 1968 he lost his job and his Polish citizenship in a nationalistic and antisemitic campaign. He was able to move to Norway where he worked for twenty years at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), editing an international quarterly journal, Bulletin of Peace Proposals and doing research on the arms race. In retirement, he continued his research and writing at the Norwegian Human Rights Institute. The book vividly relates the drama of his life in Poland, Palestine, Indochina, and Norway. This is an open access book.
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