Preliminary Inventory to the Stefan Korbonski papers

Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff

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Title: Stefan Korbonski papers

Date (inclusive): 1943-1983

Collection Number: 83065

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: In Polish and English

Physical Description: 62 manuscript boxes, 6 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder (29.4 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Speeches and writings, correspondence, dispatches, minutes, bulletins, memoranda, printed matter, phonotapes, and photographs, relating to the underground movement in Poland during World War II, Polish émigré affairs, and the Assembly of Captive European Nations and other anti-communist movements.

Creator: Korboński, Stefan

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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.

Use

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1983.

Preferred Citation

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

Biographical note

Polish underground leader during World War II; subsequently chairman, Assembly of Captive European Nations.

Scope and Contents

Speeches and writings, correspondence, dispatches, minutes, bulletins, memoranda, printed matter, phonotapes, and photographs, relating to the underground movement in Poland during World War II, Polish émigré affairs, and the Assembly of Captive European Nations and other anti-communist movements.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Audiotapes

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements

Poland -- Emigration and immigration

Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945

World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland

Anti-communist movements

ACEN (Organization)

WARTIME UNDERGROUND

box 1

1. Original manuscript of W Imieniu Rzeczypospolite j /Fighting Warsaw/ in Polish prepared already in underground / 1939-1945

box 2

1. Original manuscript of W Imieniu Rzeczypospolite j /Fighting Warsaw/ in Polish prepared already in underground / 1939-1945

2. Dispatches sent to London in microfilm and others in item 1/two metal boxes/.

3. General Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski's letters mostly handwritten and my replies. /Contents of these letters described in my letter to Hoover Institution of June 16, 1983/.

4. Research material for my book The Polish Underground State - A Guide to the Underground 1939-1945/1 volume and several large manila envelopes.

box 3

5. Show trials in Poland connected with my underground activities and escape/press clippings from the Polish communist newspapers.

6. Original underground files of the Directorate of Civil Resistance smuggled from Poland to the U.S. two volumes, several hundred pages. /See my letter of June 16, 1983/.

7. Moscow Prawda of with extensive coverage of the show trial of 16 top leaders of the Polish wartime underground state. June 20, 1945

EMIGRATION

box 4

1. Free Europe Committee and Radio Free Europe/four volumes

2. European Movement, Central and Eastern European Section /Chairman Harold Macmillan/

3. Central and Eastern European Commission /Chairman Major Edward Beddington-Behrens/

box 5

4. Consultative Assembly /Chairman Paul Henri Spaak/Items 2,3,4, together comprise three envelopes

5. Dr.Joseph Retinger - Polish-British emissary to the Polish underground - my article in Polish.

6. United Committees and Councils in exile /Headquarters in New York/one volume

7. International Peasant Union

box 6