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Title: Wiktor Sukiennicki papers
Date (inclusive): 1914-1993
Collection Number: XX307
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Polish, English, Russian, German, and French
Physical Description:
31 manuscript boxes
(12.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, reports, radio broadcast transcripts, and printed matter relating to twentieth-century
Polish history, the history of the Communist International, and Radio Free Europe broadcasting to Poland. Includes draft and
finished reports of the Polish Rada Ministrów, 1946, relating to the Katyn Forest Massacre and Polish prisoners of war in
the Soviet Union during World War II.
Creator:
Sukiennicki, Wiktor, 1901-1983
Creator:
Poland. Rada Ministrów
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
[Identification of item], Wiktor Sukiennicki papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Polish-American historian and political scientist; research analyst, Radio Free Europe, 1952-1959.
Sukiennicki, a Polish legal scholar and later a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, was the principal investigator
of the Katyn Forest Massacre on behalf of the Polish government in exile.
Scope and Content of Collection
Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, reports, radio broadcast transcripts, and printed matter relating to twentieth-century
Polish history, the history of the Communist International, and Radio Free Europe broadcasting to Poland. Includes draft and
finished reports of the Polish Rada Ministrów, 1946, relating to the Katyn Forest Massacre and Polish prisoners of war in
the Soviet Union during World War II.
The collection's original order and folder titles have been maintained.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons
World War, 1914-1918 -- Poland
Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945
Prisoners of war
Radio broadcasting -- Poland
World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland
Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940
Poland -- History -- 20th century
Radio Free Europe
Communist International