Jerzy Turonek

Jerzy Turonek (Belarusian: Юры Туронак, romanized: Yury Turonak;[1] 26 April 1929 – 2 January 2019) was a Polish-Belarusian historian.

He was born in Dūkštas into the family of West Belarusian political activist Branislaŭ Turonak [be] in the Second Polish Republic's Wilno Voivodeship.

After World War II, Turonek graduated from the Higher School for Planning and Statistics in Warsaw in 1952, and later worked for the Polish foreign trade chamber where he was analysing the international chemicals market and worked at the European economic commission in Geneva.

Turonek is the author of monograph Białoruś pod okupacją niemiecką (Belarus under the German occupation) published in 1993 by Książka i Wiedza.

[2] Copies of his monograph shipped to Belarus for distribution were confiscated by the KGB, the Belarusian security service.