Stanisław Jastrzębski (writer)

Stanisław Jastrzębski, born in the village of Bubło, Rohatyn County, in Stanisławów Voivodeship currently Ukraine; presently residing in Chorzów in southern Poland; writer, lawyer, historian, legal advisor. Following Nazi German and Soviet invasion of Poland, Jastrzębski was a soldier of Armia Krajowa and member of the Polish self-defence unit in Stanisławów against OUN-UPA pacification raids. Political prisoner under Stalinism in the Polish People's Republic, he went on to graduate from the Faculty of Law at the University of Wrocław. For many following years Jastrzębski worked as a barrister.

Stanisław Jastrzębski is a survivor of the World War II massacres of Poles in Volhynia, during which he eye-witnessed the UPA murder of his own family.

The result of years of his historical research based on official documents and witness accounts is Jastrzębski's 2007 book (right) entitled Ludobójstwo nacjonalistów ukraińskich na Polakach na Lubelszczyźnie w latach 1939-1947 (English: Polish Genocide by Ukrainian Nationalists in/around Lublin Voivodeship in 1939–1947), revealing the extent of atrocities committed against Polish civilians in Kresy by bands of Ukrainian nationalists. The book makes use of materials collected by the Society for the Remembrance of Victims of Genocide Committed by the Ukrainian Nationalists (Polish: Stowarzyszenie Upamiętnienia Ofiar Zbrodni Ukraińskich Nacjonalistów) and the Institute of National Remembrance.

In his most recent, 2008 book, Samoobrona Polaków na Kresach Południowo-Wschodnich II RP w latach 1939-1946 (English: Polish Self-defence in Southeastern Kresy Region of Polish Second Republic), Jastrzębski conducts an in-depth study of the Polish attempts at self-defence against UPA pacification operations and gives a detailed account of the defence units' activities during Nazi German and Soviet occupation. The book is based on documents and narratives collected by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance.

• Oko w oko z banderowcami
• Wspomnienia zza krat PRL
• Moje Kresy wczoraj i dziś
• Kresy wschodnie we krwi
• Martyrologia polskiej ludności w województwie lwowskim w latach 1939-1947, zbrodnie popełnione przez nacjonalistów ukraińskich
• Ludobójstwo ludności polskiej przez OUN-UPA w województwie stanisławowskim w latach 1939-1946
• Ludobójstwo nacjonalistów ukraińskich na Polakach na Lubelszczyźnie w latach 1939-1947 Publisher: Nortom, 2007, ISBN 978-83-89684-04-2, 264 pages, (soft cover)
• Samoobrona Polaków na Kresach Południowo-Wschodnich II RP w latach 1939-1946 Publisher: Nortom, 2008, ISBN 978-83-89684-27-1, 244 pages (soft cover)