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Oral history collection, 1919-1986.

Title: Oral history collection, 1919-1986.

Historical reportages, lectures, speeches, and statements of Polish politicians and statesmen including Władysław Anders, Jozef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Jan Kwapinski, Zygmunt Nagorski, and Adam Pragier; Polish generals including Władysław Sikorski, Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz, and French General Maxime Weygand of the French Military Mission sent to aid Poland in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1920; and American Presidents and statesmen including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert Kennedy. Biographical interviews with Polish artists, scholars, writers, and others, most of whom emigrated to the United States after 1939 including Michał Budny, Ewa Czarnecka, Karin Falencka, Feliks Gadomski, Feliks Gross, Zygmunt Gross, Wacław Jedrzejewicz, Jan Karski, Stefan Korbonski, the Koss family, Ludwik Krzyzanowski, Ignacy Morawski, Leon Pommers, Adam Panufnik, Franciszek Proch, Jerzy Ptakowski, Halina Rodzinska, Teofil Roll, Ludwik Seidenman, Leopold Stokowski, Peter Skalnik, Marek Swiecicki, Halina Wierzynska, and Halina Wittlin; Polish folklore with Reverend Kedziołek (Kaszuby, Canada) and with the clergy at Panna Maria, Texas; and major events in Poland, 1981-1982, with Mirosław Chojecki and Kazimierz Brandys.

ArchivalResource: 518 cassette tapes; 240 reel-to-reel tapes; 20 record discs; 850 miscellaneous recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155527645 View

Jan Lechoń papers, 1945-1956 and undated.

Title: Jan Lechoń papers, 1945-1956 and undated.

Letters from Polish poet and editor, Jan Lechoń. Also includes compositionsby Lechoń and others and some third party correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00089/catalog View

Records, 1942-1975.

Title: Records, 1942-1975.

Documents of the literary, historical, and scientific sections of the Institute and correspondence relating to the establishment of these sections, 1942-1945. Correspondents include Karol Estreicher, Aleksander Janta, Manfred Kridl, Jan Kucharzewski, Oscar Lange, Jan Lechon, Wacław Lednicki, Bronisław Malinowski, Tadeusz Sendzimir, Wojciech Swietosławski, Rafał Taubenschlag, Kazimierz Wierzynski, Jozef Wittlin, and Florian Znaniecki. Materials on the post-war reconstruction of Polish universities, libraries, and scientific life; records on the persecution of Polish scholars in Poland and their fate during and after World War II; and opposition to Yalta, 1945, and Polish-Soviet relations, 1943. Official correspondence with the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, 1947; Council of National Unity, 1949; the Polish Committee of Social Assistance, 1946-1948; National Culture Fund, 1945-1946; Polish Roman Catholic Union of America, 1942-1945; United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 1942; and others. Correspondence with the wartime Polish Government-in-Exile in London, including letters of Jan Hulewicz, Minister of Home Affairs, London, concerning the relaying of messages for the homeland by envoys and underground channels, 1944-1946, General Władysław Anders, General Bor-Komorowski, General Marian Kukiel, Tytus Komarnicki, Prof. Stanisław Kot, General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, and August Zaleski.

ArchivalResource: 17 containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122574212 View