Papers, 1920–22, 120 items. Reports of all departments of a government comprising Wilno [Vilna, Vilnius, Vilno] and surrounding Lithuanianian territory, founded by General Lucjan Zeligowski (1865–1947), who became its chief of state. Originals and copies. Some documents concern Polish-Byelorussian and Polish-Ukrainian relations. There are posters connected with the elections to the Polish Diet in 1922. (NUCMC 72–1210)
Apolinary Kielczynski (1904-1968)
Collection, 1941–56, 16 files and 6 vols. Diplomat and journalist. He was vice-consul of the Polish government in exile in Istanbul after World War II. The files concern his journalistic work; the volumes of "Balkan Materials" (1952–56) contain many items related to Russian and Balkan affairs.
Belvedere Archives
Ca. 15 ft., 1918–22. Also known in Polish as Akta Adiutantury Generalnej Naczelnego Dowodztwa. Records of the general headquarters of the Polish army's supreme command, including dispatches, reports, diplomatic and military materials, most submitted to Marshal Jozef Pilsudski as commander in chief of the army. Battle plans and orders, documents on the organization of military forces, and data on the Polish-Russian War of 1919–20 (Battle of Warsaw, Kiev campaign, etc.). Also includes some of Pilsudski's own manuscripts and foreign policy reports submitted to him as chief of state from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from Polish legations and missions abroad. The records have been microfilmed (negative and positive) on 30 reels; Yale University's Sterling Library has the microfilm. Unpublished register (NUCMC 72–1203).
Edward Smigly-Rydz (1886-1941)
Papers, 1920 and 1935–39, 2 ft. Marshal of the Polish army, commander in chief in 1939. Reports, orders, maps, and description of "Operation Winter" conducted in the winter of 1919–20 against Dunaberg, under his command, in the Polish-Soviet War; and correspondence, speeches, memoranda, and other papers from 1935–39 when he was general-inspector of the Polish army. In part, copies. (NUCMC 72–1207)
Jan Weinstein (1903-1974)
Papers, 1921–45, 60 files. Polish diplomat and historian. Includes some items related to Russian and Eastern European politics.
Jerzy Ponikiewski (1907-1965)
Collection, 1945–54, 7 binders. Polish journalist. 1 volume concerns the USSR, chiefly the "Promethean Movement" for national selfdetermination among Soviet nationalities.
Jozef Lipski (1894-1958)
Papers, 1933–58, 19 ft. Polish diplomat, ambassador in Berlin, 1933–39, and representative of the Polish government in exile in Washington. Part of the 93 files relates to his service in Berlin and has been published, 1968. In the other part are many items related to Russian and Eastern European diplomacy or international affairs in which the Soviet Union played a role. (NUCMC 72–1197)
Julian Stachiewicz (1890-1934)
Collection, ca. 1914–18, 16 files. General, historian, and director of the Historical Office at the Polish Ministry of War. Records concerning the participation of Poles in the Russian, Austrian, and German armies during World War I.
Katyn Forest
Records, 1940, 6 files. Material on the Polish prisoners of war captured by the USSR during the 1939 campaign and on the Katyn Forest Massacre of 1940.
Michal Sokolnicki (1880-1967)
Papers, 1908–45, 4 ft. Polish historian, diplomat, and author. Ambassador and mission chief to Turkey, 1923–45. In part, records of the Polish embassy in Ankara (office files, letters, military and diplomatic intelligence reports); also, personal correspondence and diaries. Many items concern Russian and Eastern European diplomacy or international affairs in which the USSR played a role. (NUCMC 72–1208)
Polish Consulate General in New York
Archives, 1939–45, 40 files. Materials related to routine office work, including some on activities of Russian ethnic groups from Eastern Europe.
Polish Embassy in London
Records, 1920–32, 10 folders. Political reports sent to the embassy by the Polish foreign office. Copies of the reports, originally received from Moscow or written by the foreign office itself, were distributed to all major embassies.
Polish Government in London
Records, 1940present, 11 files (additions expected). Includes some items dealing with Russian and Eastern European diplomacy or international affairs.
Polish Wars
Archives, 1918–45, 9 files and 4 vols. 1 file concerns the Polish army in the USSR, 1943–44; the remainder relates to the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–21.
Press Collection
19 vols., 1943–47. Press clippings, volumes I, XVII, XVIII, and XIX of which concern Polish-Soviet relations.
Russia-USSR
Records, 1939, 3 files. Documents concerning the deportation to the USSR of Polish citizens from Soviet-occupied Poland; also press clippings.
Tadeusz Rozwadowski (1866-1928)
Papers, 1920, 107 items. Polish army officer. Chief of the general staff of Polish forces in the Polish-Soviet War, 1920. Correspondence, reports, and other papers concern the Battle of Warsaw and the Riga peace conference. Marshal Jozef Pilsudski and General Maxime Weygand of the French military mission in Poland are 2 of the correspondents. (NUCMC 72–1206)
Ukraine
Collection, 1914-present, 3 files and growing. Records and press clippings related to living conditions in the Ukraine and to the Ukrainian ethnic group in the U.S.
Ukrainian Military Mission in Poland
Archive, 1920, 193 items. Ukrainian army sent into Poland by the nationalist government of S. V. Petliura. Originals and copies, mainly in Ukrainian, of the government's orders, notes, reports, maps, correspondence, and appeals to the Polish regime. Some letters are from Petliura himself. (NUCMC 72–1211)
Valerian Platonov
Collection, 1837–65, 1 ft. Letters, documents, and clippings, originals and copies, relating to the Polish revolt of 1863 as well as economic, financial, and judicial conditions in (Russian) Poland. Includes proclamations of the Polish National Government, pronouncements of military leaders of the uprising, articles of the Polish press, and letters of Count F. Berg, A. and/or M. Gorchakov, Count M. N. Muraviev, I. F. Paskevich, E. Sievers, and Alexander Wielopolski. (NUCMC 72–1202)
World War I
Collection, 1914–18, 5 files. Material about the military operations of Russian and Austrian armies on Polish territory.
Zygmunt Guze
Papers, 1918–45 and n.d., 9 files. Polish engineer employed in Imperial Russia just before World War I. Materials relate to European and Asiatic Russia and the Soviet Union, and to his interests in history, geography, and ethnography. The handwriting is very difficult to decipher.
