Copyright Holder: Instytut Polski i Muzeum im. Gen. Sikorskiego w Londynie

Oval sign depicting the Republic of Poland’s national emblem, the White Eagle, used between 1927 and 1939. A crowned eagle had been used as a Polish symbol for centuries, and first appeared on the official state coat of arms in 1295. Poland lost its independence in 1795, only regaining it in 1918, following World War I. In 1919, Poland’s government adopted the crowned white eagle as the official state ...

Reports on missions activities in individual German occupation zones, concerning the Haupttreuhandstelle Ost, HTO (Main Trustee Office for the East), lists of assets confiscated by HTO in Poland, lists of losses incurred by Poland during the war, war damages refunds, questionnaires, German compensation, child care and invalidity. The vast majority of documents concern war claims and property reven ...

Copyright Holder: Instytut Polski i Muzeum im. Gen. Sikorskiego w Londynie

Copyright Holder: Instytut Polski i Muzeum im. Gen. Sikorskiego w Londynie

Description of most of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room

TR.17 - Documentation from the Archive of the Main Commission for Investigation of Crimes against the Polish People, the Institute of National Remembrance in Poland
 
 In the Record Group there is documentation gathered by the Main Commission for Investigation of Crimes against the Polish People, which was active in Poland after World War II.
 
 The Commission gathered much documentation ...

Copyright Holder: Instytut Polski i Muzeum im. Gen. Sikorskiego w Londynie

Notebook of color sketches created by Benedykt Filipiak postwar about his experiences in Poland and Germany during the war and in Germany and the United States after the war. Benedykt, 15, was a Polish Catholic youth attending the Polish Officer Cadet College when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He went into active service, was captured, and sent to Stalag XIB. He escaped and joined the ...

Copyright Holder: Instytut Polski i Muzeum im. Gen. Sikorskiego w Londynie

Contains selected records from the Council of Ministers of the Polish government-in-exile, under Prime Ministers Władysław Sikorski (1939-1943), Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1943-1944), Tomasz Arciszewski (1944-1947), and Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1947-1949). Documents included pertain to agreements and relations with foreign governments, military and territorial problems, the situation in Poland under German ...

Large, lidded wooden chest used by Rada Pomocy Zydom (Council to Aid Jews), called Zegota, to hide false identity documents for Jews in German occupied Poland. Zegota was an underground organization, most active in the Warsaw region, where its members, Jewish and non-Jewish, helped Jews go into or remain in hiding. It found them hiding places and provided them with medical care, food, money, and false ...

Copyright Holder: Instytut Polski i Muzeum im. Gen. Sikorskiego w Londynie

Uniform patch with a Polish eagle on a red castle issued to Dr. Edmund Lusthaus when he served in the 2nd Polish Corps from 1941-1945. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and seventeen days later, the Soviet Army invaded from the east. Lusthaus was captured and taken to a camp for Polish prisoners of war in Novosibirsk, Siberia, where he served as a physician. When Germany invaded the Soviet ...

Contains drafts and copies of addresses of Gen. Sikorski and other documents related to political activities of Retinger. Includes study, letters, notes, reports, correspondence, e.g. with S.Brodetzki, Stanisław Kot, Jan Karski, S. Gruszka, the Joint, New Zionist Organization and “The Jewish Chronicle”, Polish Embassy in Washington, etc. related to various issues, e.g. relives of Jews to the Army in ...

Copyright Holder: Instytut Polski i Muzeum im. Gen. Sikorskiego w Londynie

Correspondence includes postcards and letters sent by Regina Sobol in Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR to her husband Maksim Leopoldovitch Sobel (donor’s parents) in the Red Army in 1942; postcards and letters written by Maria Laks in Dniepropetrovsk to her brother-in-law, Maksim Sobel in Sumy, Ukraine, USSR; Certificates testifying that Maksimilian Sobel was awarded medals for fighting in WWII and for liberating ...

Contains records of the Narodowe Sily Zbrojne (NSZ), a Polish military organization established in September 1942 as a union of some underground groups including Narodowy Zwiazek Wojskowy (National Military Union) and Zwiazek Jaszczurczy (The Lizard Union). One component of the NSZ joined the Armia Krajowa (Home Army) as a result of an agreement made on March 7, 1944; another component of the so-called ...

Contains selected records relating to Jewish matters in Romania, studies of the Jewish question in Poland, fragments of the study relating to Jewish organizations in Romania, and Jewish refugees from Poland in Romania, German minorities In Romania, the fragment of the study of the structure of power among Jews in the global context, including in Poland, and the copy of the letter of W. Pelc from the ...

Contains papers of Władysław Anders, General of the Polish Armed Forces in Exile. Also includes a journal of the activities of General Anders, 7 August 1941-27 March 1945, and speeches, orders, statements, studies, notes and correspondence.

Copyright Holder: Instytut Polski i Muzeum im. Gen. Sikorskiego w Londynie

- pomoce ewidencyjne (kartoteka osobowa Polaków sporządzona przez władze alianckie na terenie okupowanych Niemiec - b. więźniów niemieckich obozów koncentracyjnych, jeńców wojennych i robotników przymusowych, którzy po zakończeniu wojny zostali umieszczeni w obozach dla przesiedleńców)

Contains fragments of addresses of Prime Minister Sikorski of November 14, 1940, the list of Jewish journalists and reporters abroad, letters from and to President of the New Zionist Organization in London, the report of the World Jewish Congress, and press clippings.

Members of the Polish air force fought through the defeat of their own country in 1939 and then alongside the French until the fall of France the following year, when they made their varied ways to Britain. There the Poles were among the Air Force's most successful aces. During the Battle of Britain, the pilots of the all-Polish Kosciuszko Squadron - 303 Squadron to the RAF - downed more German planes ...