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National Digital Archives (Polish: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, NAC) are the national archives of Poland, collecting and digitising audiovisual materials. [2]National Digital Archives are one of three central State Archives (Archiwa Państwowe), other two being Central Archives of Historical Records and Archives of Modern Records []. [3]
The archive was founded in 1808. [1]A large portion of the archive was intentionally destroyed by Nazi Germany during World War II in 1939 and in 1944. In the aftermath of the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, the archives were not only deliberately set ablaze, but the Nazi German troops also entered each of the nine accessible fire-proof vaults in the underground shelter and ...
The history of Poland spans over a thousand years, from medieval tribes, Christianization and monarchy; through Poland's Golden Age, expansionism and becoming one of the largest European powers; to its collapse and partitions, two world wars, communism, and the restoration of democracy.
An example document from the archive: Martin Luther writes to city council in Gdańsk (1532) Seal of the archive (stamp, 1910) State Archives in Gdańsk (Polish: Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku, AP) is one of Poland's regional state archives. The archive in the city of Gdańsk (German: Danzig) was founded under Prussian jurisdiction in 1901. The ...
This is a timeline of Polish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Poland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Poland .
Toward a Usable Past in Poland Lecture 1: An Assessment of the History of Poland since 1939. Harvard Ukrainian Studies , 27 (1/4), 217–50. Polonsky, A. (2004).
Archives in Poland (2 C, 9 P) H. ... History museums in Poland (9 C, 35 P) O. History organisations based in Poland (3 C, 7 P) W. Works about Polish history (3 C, 1 P)
The Regency Kingdom was the fourth and last monarchy in Poland's history. As the war settled into a long stalemate, the issue of Polish self-rule gained greater urgency. Roman Dmowski spent the war years in Western Europe , hoping to persuade the Allies to unify the Polish lands under Russian rule as an initial step toward liberation.