Information about the object:
The collection is 0.68 mb (approximately 6,000 pages of documents), date range 1912-1977. Digital conversion has safeguarded this resource for future generations, while making it accessible to history researchers worldwide. By the end of 2020, 2,500 pages from this valuable archive have been digitised as part of the task.

Polish Legions - Polish military formations operating from 1914 to 1917 on the side of the Central Powers, subordinated organisationally to the Supreme Command of the Austro-Hungarian Army, politically and partly organisationally to the Supreme National Committee. They originated from the Riflemen's Troops and other Polish military-independence organisations. The Polish Legions consisted of 3 brigades and supporting and auxiliary units.

Polish Military Organisation (POW) - a clandestine military organisation formed on the initiative of Józef Piłsudski in October 1914 in Warsaw from a merger of the Polish Riflemen's Squads and the Riflemen's Association.

The Supreme National Committee (NKN) - a political body established in August 1914 in Kraków by Galician politicians of a pro-Austrian orientation. It was the supreme authority for the military, fiscal and political organisation of the Polish armed forces. It was divided into two autonomous sections: an eastern section with its seat in Lwów and a western section with its seat in Kraków.

The Military Department played the greatest role in the NKN. After the establishment of the Regency Council in 1919. Regency Council, the NKN dissolved itself.

The Riflemen's Association (ZS) - a Polish paramilitary organisation established in 1910 in Lwów as the Riflemen's Association and in Kraków as the "Strzelec" Society; clandestine riflemen's organisations were also established in the Kingdom of Poland and the Prussian partition. The main aim of the ZS was to train officer cadres and soldiers to fight against Russia.

Contents: proclamations, leaflets, press cuttings concerning the legionary movement, field correspondence and materials concerning the First Brigade, materials concerning the Riflemen's Association, the Polish Military Organisation and the Supreme National Committee, personal documents and correspondence of General Stefan Dąb- Biernacki, Lieutenant Stefan Dudzieniec-Krak, Captain Tadeusz Terlecki.

Completed works:
The aim of the task was to digitise and make available the archive concerning the origin and activities of the Polish Legions: archive group 028 "Polish Legions, Polish Military Organisation, Supreme National Committee, Riflemen's Association".

The digitised collection is available on the website of the Pilsudski Institute Archives .

On the site, descriptions (containing lists of names, dates and other information) are available next to the archives. A division into folders has also been applied, with a breakdown of individual documents.

Funding: Programme of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage "Protection of Cultural Heritage Abroad".

More about the project: https://polonika.pl

• Fundacja na rzecz Dziedzictwa Narodowego imienia Józefa Piłsudskiego, realizacja w roku 2020.