History Researcher, Institute of National Remembrance
Jan Olaszek works at the Historical Research Office of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). Jan deals with the history of the democratic opposition in the People’s Republic of Poland and holds a scholarship at the Foundation for Polish Science, the Kersten Foundation and the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen. Jan Olaszek won the first prize in the European Solidarity Centre competition for the best Master’s thesis on the opposition in the People’s Republic of Poland (2010) and the History Award, founded by the “Polityka” weekly, for the best science and popular science book (2016).