Background
Antoni Maczak was born to Lwów in 1928.
Antoni Maczak was born to Lwów in 1928.
He then studied at the University of Warsaw.
During the Second World War he fought in the Gray Ranks paramilitary Boy Scout units of the Polish resistance against the Nazis, and in the ranks of Home Army. He took part in the Warsaw Uprising of August–October 1944. Captured, he remained a prisoner until Germans surrendered in 1945.
From 1981 to 1987 he was director of the History Institute of the University of Warsaw.
He has lectured at many academic centers in the world, including at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, University of Notre Dame, McGill University.
Fellow of Collegium Invisibile.Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.