Overview of the Wiktor Sukiennicki Papers

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Overview of the Wiktor Sukiennicki Papers

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Processed by:: Hoover Institution Archives Staff
Date Completed:: 2009
Encoded by:: Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record by David Sun.

Collection Summary

Title: Wiktor Sukiennicki papers

Dates: 1917-1993

Collection Number: XX307

Creator: Sukiennicki, Wiktor, 1901-1983.

Collection Size: 31 manuscript boxes (12.4 linear feet)

Repository: Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford, California 94305-6010

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.

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives

Languages: English Polish Russian

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

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Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Wiktor Sukiennicki papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid.

Biographical/Historical Note

Polish-American historian and political scientist; research analyst, Radio Free Europe, 1952-1959. Sukiennicki, a Polish legal scholar and later a research fellow at Hoover, was the principal investigator of the Katyn murders 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.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Communist International.

Radio Free Europe.

World War, 1914-1918--Poland.

World War, 1939-1945--Poland.

Radio broadcasting--Poland.

Katyn Forest Massacre, 1940.

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.

Prisoners of war.

Poland--History--20th century.

Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.

Poland. Rada Ministrów.

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