Preliminary Inventory to the Michal Sokolnicki papers

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Title: Michal Sokolnicki papers
Date (inclusive): 1908-1968
Collection Number: 68003
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Polish, French and English
Physical Description: 15 manuscript boxes, 10 microfilm reels (7.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Diaries, correspondence, writings, dispatches, memoranda, and printed matter, relating to the Polish nationalist movement before and during World War I, Polish relations with Denmark and Turkey, and the Polish Government- in-Exile during World War II. In part, microfilm of originals located in the Pilsudski Institute of America. Original material held at Hoover also available on microfilm (20 reels).
Creator: Sokolnicki, Michał, 1880-1967

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1968.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Michal Sokolnicki Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Alternate Forms Available

Also available on microfilm (20 reels).

Location of Original Materials

In part, microfilm from originals located in the Pilsudski Institute of America.

Scope and Contents

Diaries, correspondence, writings, dispatches, memoranda, and printed matter, relating to the Polish nationalist movement before and during World War I, Polish relations with Denmark and Turkey, and the Polish Government- in-Exile during World War II. In part, microfilm of originals located in the Pilsudski Institute of America.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Diplomats -- Poland
Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland
Poland -- History -- 20th century
Denmark -- Foreign relations -- Poland
Poland -- Foreign relations -- Denmark
Turkey -- Foreign relations -- Poland
Poland -- Foreign relations -- Turkey

box 1

Polish Legation in Kopenhagen: correspondence of Minister Michal Sokolnicki with Cardinal August Hlond 1932-1935.

 

Diplomatic correspondence and reports of Michal Sokolnicki as Ambassador in Turkey, and followin folders: May 1935 - December 1940

box 1

Reports from the Polish diplomatic posts in Washington, London, Stockholm and Lisbon April 1938 - July 1939.

box 1

Ambassador's dispatches to the Ministry of Foreign Affair in Warsaw April 1938 - August 31, 1939.

box 1

Reports from Ambassador Roger Raczynski, Bucarest September 15-30, 1939.

box 1

Correspondence with Ambassador Roger Raczynski 1940-1941

 

Diplomatic correspondence and reports January 1942 - December 1943.

box 2

Correspondence relating to the Polish-Soviet agreement of July 1941.

box 2

Correspondence with General Anders 1943 - 1944.

box 2

Correspondence with General Sikorski; Conference in Beyreuth June 1943.

box 2

Katyn. The mass murder of Polish prisoners of war; Reports.

box 2

Hungary's political position 1939 - 1943.

box 2

Polish-Soviet relations: documents, by Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, London. April 1943 - August 1946

 

Diplomatic correspondence and reports, Folders: January 1944 - August 1945.

box 3

Warsaw uprising August 1944.

box 3

Lublin Committee 1944.

box 3

Yalta Conference February 1945.

box 3

Trials of Polish underground leaders, Moscow June 1945.

box 3

Turkish-Soviet relations 1944-1945.

box 3

Recognition of Polish Provisional Government by Turkey.

box 3

List of Polish diplomatic posts active in 1945.

box 3

Adampol 1945.

box 3

Correspondence with Ambassador Alfred Poninski 1942-44.

 

Correspondence, notes, Folders: January 1946 - December 1951.

box 4

Correspondence with Minister of Foreign Affairs in London May 1947-Nov. 1948.

box 4

Liquidation of the Polish Armed Forces - documents, Military Commission of the Government-in-Exile, London. 1945-1946

box 4

Documents relating to the eve of the Second World War, New Ti April 1948.

box 4

Correspondence with the Institute of the Near and Middle East Reduta 1948-1950.

box 4

Correspondence with Patriarch Athenagoras, Istanbul 1948-1949

box 4

Komunizm - dokumentacja miesiczna, London. 1948-1949.

 

Correspondence, notes, Folders: January 1952 - December 1960 1961-1968.

box 5

Correspondence with General Marian Kukiel 1953-1963.

box 5

Correspondence with editors of Kultura 1953-1954.

box 5

Correspondence with Pobog-Malinowski.

box 5

Correspondence with Archbishop J.F.Gawlina 1959-1960.

box 5

Correspondence with J.Fryling 1951-1952.

box 5

Correspondence with Klaudiusz Hrabyk 1954-1955.

box 6

Ambassador Sokolnicki's Diary September 1, 1939 - August 1945.

General Physical Description note: Manuscript.
box 7

Ambassador Sokolnicki's Diary September 1, 1939 - August 1945.

box 8

Ambassador Sokolnicki's Diary September 1, 1939 - August 1945.

box 9

Manuscript of Josef Beck's Commentary of the diplomatic history of the war of 1939. Dictated in Bucarest in published in New York in as Final report. March 1943 1957

box 9

Ambassador's Ankara Diary - first draft of the abridged version of his wartime diary.

box 9

Introduction a l'histoire diplomatic - Sokolnicki's lectures at the History Department of Ankara University 1952.

box 10

Poland 1914-1945, collective work, which was to be published in United States. Manuscripts of the chapters written by Michal Sokolnicki.

box 10

Manuscripts of Sokolnicki's articles which appeared in in Bellona, Kultura, Wiadomosci, Orzel Bialy, Dziennik Polski i Dziennik Zolnierza. 1955-1960

 

Political history of the Second World War, 1939-1945, manuscript and relating correspondence 1956-58.

box 11

Unpublished articles, notes and research material.

 

Writings and research material. Folders:

box 12

Nienapisana ksika - Rebirth of the Polish Republic, 1919-1926.

box 12

Na prezeomie polityki legionowej. Epizody roku 1916.

box 12

Polish-Finnish question article and related correspondence.

 

Copies of Polish emigré publications, London, Folders: 1947-1953.

box 13

Biuletyn Instytutu Bada Krajowych.

box 13

Biuletyn Ligi Niepodlegoci Polski.

box 13

Wiadomoci Krajowe.

box 13

Egzekutywa Zjednoczenia Nàrodowego.

box 13

Biuletyn P lskiej Agencji Telegraficznej.

box 13

Biuletyn Polityczny.

box 13

Wschód Polski - and other publications of emigre organizations.

box 14

Research material - newspapers clippings relating to the Second World War, Polish-Russian relations, Turkey and Balkan countries

box 15

Newspapers clippings relating to the Second World War, from Polish, Russian, French and British newspapers.

reel 1-10

Microfilm reels of Michal Sokolnicki papers held at the Pilsudski Institute of America