Dr. Tone Ferenc, Scientific Councillor at the Institute for History of Labour Movement and Regular Professor at the Faculty of Arts at the Universitv of Edvard Kardelj in Ljubljana, has enriched the Slovenian and Yugoslav historiography of the National Liberation Struggle with a wide opus of 345 of various works, among them 28 volumes and handbooks, over 200 treatises and articles and 30 published sources (Bibliography in: Contributions to the History of Labour Movement 27, 1987, No. 1—2). The main object of Dr. Ferenc's research is the developement of the National Liberation Struggle and occupation politics on the whole Slovenian ethnic territory. He has also worked on some problems considering the history of Yugoslav nations in the period 1941—1945 and the Second World War using comprehensive documentation from abroad archives and other institutions.
He mediated his research achievements on numerous international and Yugoslav scientific conferences and published them at home and abroad. For his succesful research, archivistic, pedagogic, museological and social-political work Dr. Ferenc received numerous awards, decorations and acknowledgments.