Archivum Helveto-Polonicum
| Archivum Helveto-Polonicum
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| Coordinates | 46 ° 48 '8.1 " N , 7 ° 9' 11.8" E |
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Freiburg im Üechtland FR Switzerland
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| Visitor address | Grand-Places 16 |
| founding | 1997 |
| scope | 285,000 written documents 15,000 photos 1,500 audio / video cassettes |
| ISIL | CH-001613-3 |
| Organizational form | Foundation, endowment |
| Website | http://www.fondationahp.ch/maing.htm |
The Archivum Helveto-Polonicum is a scientific archive that collects, documents, catalogs and makes available to the public evidence of the presence of Poles in Switzerland. It is located in Freiburg im Üechtland .
history
The institution of the Archivum Helveto-Polonicum was founded in June 1997.
The holdings were created over 15 years from the private collections of the founders of the foundation (Ludwika and Jacek Sygnarski). They were supplemented by numerous legacies from Polish and Swiss families and organizations.
In 1999, an agreement was reached with the Friborg Cantonal and University Library (KUB) to include the foundation's book collections in the library system of French-speaking Switzerland ( RERO: Réseau des bibliothèques de Suisse Occidentale ). From 2002, thanks to a new contract, new items were accommodated in the KUB premises and thus made accessible to a wider audience. A few years later, almost all of the foundation's books could be placed in the new KUB building in Beauregard.
The foundation wants to save and preserve the evidence of the activities of Poland and at the same time make the Swiss aware of the Polish contribution to the political and cultural life of Switzerland.
Stocks
- Collection of independent publications and prints published in Poland from 1976 to 1989. This is an almost complete collection, the largest in Switzerland and one of the largest in Europe. All books and magazines are digitized. Their computer versions are in the possession of the Biblioteka Narodowa in Warsaw, the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow and the University Library in Toruń.
- The actual library is a collection of books and magazines that have been published outside Poland by Poland or on Polish subjects (so-called foreign Polonica).
- The actual archive is structured as follows:
- Correspondence from Henryk Opieński , musicologist: letters, photos, scores. The whole complex reflects the literary and musical life of Poles in Poland, France, Germany and Switzerland. It contains u. a. also original drawings by the young Jósef Mehoffer .
- Archives of Janusz Rakoswki.
- Archive of Jan Modzelewski
- Family archive of Maria and Zygmunt Estreicher.
- Documents from Polish organizations
- Archive of Polish soldiers interned in Switzerland during World War II (e.g. documents on Poland routes )
- Collection of various printed matter that was published in Switzerland and that is written in Polish or whose author is Polish or whose subject relates to Poland.
- The photocopied archive of Professor Józef Bocheński .
Foundation activities (selection)
Even before the foundation was established, an exhibition was organized in 1987 at the University of Freiburg by Jacek Sygnarski and Claudio Fedrigo, supported by Communion and Liberation and Solidarité avec Solidarność , and it was shown in the entrance hall of the university.
In 1992 the KUB, represented by Jacek Sygnarski and Claudio Fedrigo, organized an exhibition in its own premises under the title Underground Publications in Communist Poland in the Years 1976-1990 . This exhibition was later shown in Morges and Solothurn.
In 1994, the KUB put together an exhibition entitled Ignacy Mościcki: From the University of Freiburg to the Presidency of Poland . This exhibition was later shown in Morges, Versoix, Dompierre and Neuchâtel.
In 1999, on the occasion of the congress of the Swiss Bibliophile Society at the University of Friborg, the foundation Archivum Helveto-Polonicum issued various documents on the subject of Poles who were interned in Switzerland during the Second World War . In the same year, the foundation, together with the KUB and the East and Central European Institute, organized two exhibitions on the premises of the KUB: one on Frédéric Chopin, Ludwik Bronarski and the city of Freiburg and the other on The Polish Poet and Dramaturge Juliusz Słowacki (1809- 1849) in Switzerland .
In 2000 the photo book Helvétie, terre d'acceul ... - Helvetia, receiving country ... was published .
Together with the Swiss East European Library in Bern, the foundation put together the exhibition on the 60th anniversary of the internment of Polish soldiers in Switzerland, 1940–1945 , which was exhibited in the Bern City Library.
In 2010, together with the Association of Friends of the Foundation, on the occasion of the 30 years since Solidarność was founded, the Foundation developed the exhibition Once upon a time ... Solidarność, exhibited in its own premises.
On the 100th anniversary of the writer's death, the foundation developed the exhibition Sienkiewicz, a writer and a person with a big heart , which was exhibited in its own rooms.
Web links
- Website of the Archivum Helveto-Polonicum (no search tools)
- Réseau Romand RERO
- RERO explore
- RERO doc (German, French, English, Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beata Kułak: III: history . In: Beata Kułak, Jolanta Leśniewska, Jacek Sygnarski (eds.): From our history . Freiburg 2017, ISBN 978-2-940293-04-9 , pp. 15 .
- ↑ Augustin Macheret et al .: Introduction - three voices . In: Beate Kułak, Jolanta Leśniewska, Jacek Sygnarski: (Ed.): From our history . Freiburg 2017, ISBN 978-2-940293-04-9 , pp. 12-13 .
- ↑ Introduction. Archivum Helveto-Polonicum Foundation, accessed on June 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Jacek Sygnarski, Christian Jungo, Laurent Emery: Helvétie, terre d'accueil ... - Helvetia, host country ... Espoirs et vie quotidienne des internés polonais en Suisse 1940-1946 en images - hopes and daily life of the Polish internees in the Switzerland 1940-1946, in pictures. Ed .: Foundation Archivum Helveto-Polonicum. Les Editions Noir sur Blanc, Montricher 2000, ISBN 2-940293-00-7 .
- ↑ Beata Kułak: IX. Our activity . "Archivum Helveto-Polonicum" foundation. In: Beata Kułat, Jolanta Leśniewska, Jacek Sygnarski (eds.): From our history . Freiburg 2017, ISBN 978-2-940293-04-9 , pp. 34–47 (Original title: Okruchy naszej historii. Fundacja "Archivum Helveto-Polonicum" . Translated by Małgorzata Maeder).