Inventory of the Alfred Poninski papers

Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff

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Title: Alfred Poninski papers

Date (inclusive): 1917-1942

Collection Number: 81037

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: In Polish and French

Physical Description: 2 manuscript boxes (0.8 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Correspondence, memoirs, reports, notes, and printed matter relating to Polish-Soviet and Polish-Romanian relations, and to religious persecution in the Soviet Union.

Creator: Poninski, Alfred

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1981.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Alfred Poninski papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1896 June 18	Born in Koscielisko, Posen (Poznan) province, Poland
1914	Began work as a journalist
circa 1910-1914	Attended a gymnasium at Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) and studied law at the University of Berlin
1919-1920	Assistant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Warsaw
1918 October	Appointed press attaché at the Polish legation in Berlin
1921-1926	Served in diplomatic posts in Brussels and Paris
1921	Married Janina Nowodworska
1925	Author, "Les Traditions de la Diplomatie Polonaise," Revue d'Histoire Diplomatique
1926	Author, La Question Polonaise Depuis 1830 Jusqu'à la Grande Guerre
1935-1941	Counselor of legation to Romania
1926-1933	Counselor of legation to the Soviet Union
1942-1945	Ambassador to China
1941-1942	Consul general, Istanbul, Turkey
1947-1950	President of the Polish Democratic Society, Sydney
1946	Moved to Australia
1950s	Vice-president of the United Council of Migrants and of the New Australians' Cultural Association, and a council-member of the State division of the New Settlers' League of Australia, the Australian Council for International Social Service, and the Australian Institute of International Affairs
1950-1951	Founding president of the Federal Council of Polish Associations in Australia
1967-1968	Author, "Poland in the Second War" (series of articles in Wiadomosci Polskie)
1953-1963	Regular contributor, Tygodnik Katolicki, Melbourne
1968 March 25	Died, Sydney, Australia

Scope and Content of Collection

Correspondence, memoirs, reports, notes, and printed matter relating to Polish-Soviet and Polish-Romanian relations, and to religious persecution in the Soviet Union.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Diplomats -- Poland

Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945

Soviet Union -- Religion

World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland

Poland -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union

Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Poland

Communism and religion

Poland -- Foreign relations -- Romania

Romania -- Foreign relations -- Poland

box 2, folder 1-4

Polish legation, Bucharest 1937-1941

box 2, folder 5

"Pro publico bono. Rozwazania polityczne o naszej przyszlosci," 1941

box 2, folder 6

"Le Marechal Pilsudski en Roumanie. Premier voyage"

box 2, folder 7

Articles and speeches 1927-1937

box 2, folder 8

Varia

box 1, folder 1

Correspondence to the Consulate General in Istanbul 1941-1942

Polish legation, Moscow

box 1, folder 2-4

Help extended to the deported and imprisoned Polish clergy and correspondence with Cardinal Hlond 1928-1932

box 1, folder 5-6

Materials relating to the persecution of Orthodox and Catholic church in Russia 1923-1933

box 1, folder 7

Court case of Reverend Teofil Skalski, Butyrki prisoner 1928 January

box 1, folder 8

Reports relating to the return of King Stanislaus August's remains to Poland 1932

box 1, folder 9

"Reminiscences of the Polish Diplomat in Moscow," 1928

box 1, folder 10

Polish-Romanian relations between the two world wars

box 1, folder 11

Anatolia Nowicka: From the history of the Polish Dominican Sisters in Moscow 1923-1932