The Polish Research Institute archive

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    Description

    At the end of World War II approximately 20,000 Nazi concentration camp prisoners were evacuated to Sweden. Many of them were Polish citizens. In order to document their experiences, Zygmunt Łakociński founded the Polish Research Institute in Lund. The collection contains 512 in-depth interviews with survivors, materials that they brought with them to Sweden, and also other material that the institute collected, compiled, and created.

    Digital and physical collections

    Physical archive. The main part of the archive has been digitized.

    Services provided

    The web portal Witnessing genocide provides detailed information and entry points to the archive and a search guide to the archive is provided. University library staff is available for further help on how to use the archive.

    Subject classification (UKÄ)

    • History

    Type of infrastructure

    • Digital collections
    • Physical collections
    • Services

    Contact information

    NameHanna Wilhelmsson
    Emails[email protected]
    LinksWebsite

    Terms of loan/booking

    Available for loan - internal and external

    The main part of the archive is digitized and available via: https://www.ub.lu.se/hitta/digitala-samlingar/witnessing-genocide. Physical items are available for studying in the University Library Special Collections reading room.

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