Information about the object:
Oskar Halecki was one of the founders of PIASA; a veteran of the First World War; professor and head of the Department of History at the University of Warsaw. In 1921 he became a member of the secretariat of the League of Nations in Geneva. During the Second World War, while living in Paris, he organised the Polish University in Exile, and after emigrating to the USA, he taught history at Columbia and Fordham Universities in New York.

Karol Popiel was a Polish Christian Democrat politician, also a writer, a soldier of the Polish Legions and an activist of the National Workers' Union. From 9 September to 29 December 1930, he was imprisoned in the Brest Fortress. During World War II, he was Minister of Justice (1941-42), Minister without Portfolio (1942-43), and Minister for the Restoration of Public Administration in the Governments of Władysław Sikorski and Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1943-44). In 1947, he travelled to the United States. From 1962 he lived in Rome, where he died in 1977.

Completed works:

In 2020, as part of the project, the digitisation (begun in 2019) of archive group No. 9 (Karol Popiel's collection) from the resources of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America) was completed. Additionally, the collection of Oskar Halecki was digitised.

In total, 92 folders and over 10,000 pages of documents were digitised as part of the project. The entire collection is available on the PIASA archives website. The original materials were preserved in archival boxes (acid-free).

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.