Date range
1940-1982
Biography / History
Feliks Mantel (1906-1990) was a lawyer, journalist and a Polish socialist leader-in-exile. Acquisition Note: Gift of Feliks Mantel ca 1984.
Abstract
The collection contains original manuscripts, personal papers, and other correspondence of Feliks Mantel. Inside the collection there are political documents, press clippings, and publications of the Polish Socialist party (PPS) in Paris, records relating to the Centrolew and the Brzesc trials (1931-1933); workres’ movements, trade unions in Poland and exile after the World War II and Solidarity movement in Poland. Correspondence wiyh Polish Communists, Socialist and others political leaders on exile: Tadeusz Cwik, Adam Ciolkosz, Lidia Ciolkoszowa, Feliks Gross, Stefan Grot, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Rowmunt Pilsudski, Franciszek Wilk, Janusz Zawadzki, Waclaw Zagorski, Natalia and Zygmunt Zaremba on activities, organizations, and integration of the PPS Party abroad.Correspondence of the PPS Executive Committee in Paris with the PPS Central Foreign Committee in London, PPS Head Committee in France, Belgium, and Germany; the Polish Peasant Party (PSL); the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and other European socialist organizations. Publications and articles of Feliks Mantel. Publications concerning the democratic opposition and human rights movement in Poland, Workersdefense Committee (KSS KOR) activities. Strikes in Gdansk and Radom in (1970, 1976 and 1980). Solidarity movement and Martial Law in Poland (1981-1982). Arrangement in Series: Political Correspondence, Political Publications and Press Clippings.
| No. | Title | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Political Papers - Correspondence | ||
| 1 | PPS-correspondence (1957-67). Letters of T.Cwik on Communist ideological bankruptcy after 1956. Correspondence with Adam Ciolkosz, Z.Zaremba, A.Szewczyk, S.Grot, J.Laskowski, R.Pilsudski, J.Zawadzki, F.Wilk, S.Mikolajczyk and PPS Foreign Committee | 1957-1967 |
| 2 | PPS-correspondence (1965). Political correspondence and legal documents on nationalization of property in Poland after the World War II | 1965-1965 |
| 3 | PPS-correspondence (1967-70). Correspondence with Adam Ciolkosz and Franciszek Wilk concerning Polish Socialist and Peasant Parties in exile | 1967-1970 |
| 4 | PPS-correspondence (1970-71). Respondents: Adam Ciolkosz and Franciszek Wilk concerning Polish Socialist and Peasant Parties in exile. | 1970-1971 |
| 5 | PPS-correspondence (1972). Correspondence of Adam Ciolkosz, Stefan Grot and other Socialist leaders. The care of Edmund Bakula. Article reprints and issues of socialist quarterly ZEW (The Call) and CZERWONY SZTANDAR. Notebook of Feliks Mantel. | 1972-1972 |
| 6 | PPS-correspondence (1972). Documents relating to Fourth PPS Conference - Program Tez Programowych - London. Letters of Adam Ciolkosz, J.Zawadzki, T.Podgórski, L.Winiarski and others. | 1972-1972 |
| 7 | PPS-correspondence (1973). Correspondence and documents of PPS abroad. Letters of Adam Ciolkosz and Waclaw Zagórski. Paper on situation in Poland by Stefan Kisielewski. Articles by Feliks Mantel. | 1973-1973 |
| 8 | PPS-correspondence (1973-74). Issues of BIULETYN NIEZALEZNEJ GRUPY SPOLECZNEJ, SKARB NARODOWY, ZEW, CZERWONY SZTANDAR, CITOYENS DU MONDE | 1973-1974 |
| 9 | PPS-correspondence (1975). Political correspondence, documents and articles by Feliks Mantel on Yalta Conference, French Socialism, Katyn Massacre and others | 1975-1975 |
| 10 | PPS-correspondence (1976). Correspondence and articles of Feliks Mantel. | 1976-1976 |
| 11 | PPS-correspondence (1976). Correspondence and documents relating to Workers movements in Radom 1976. Letters of Adam Ciolkosz, Edward Lipinski and Leon Urbaniak. Issues of ZEW, CITOYENS DU MONDE, ROBOTNIK | 1976-1976 |
| 12 | PPS-correspondence (1977). Correspondence, letters of Adam Ciolkosz, Stefan Grot and other PPS leaders abroad. Letter from the President of Senegal, Mr Senghor | 1977-1977 |
| 13 | PPS-correspondence (1977-78). Letters of Adam Ciolkosz, Józef Czapski, Waclaw Zagórski, Irena Galezkowa, Tadeusz Brzostek, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Artur Szewczyk. Issues of Munich Socialist journal PRZEMIANY; CITOYENS DU MONDE. VII PPS Meeting in London. | 1977-1978 |
| 14 | PPS-correspondence (1978). Death of Adam Ciolkosz in London, issues of PRZEMIANY and CITOYENS DU MONDE. | 1978-1978 |
| 15 | PPS-correspondence (1980). Letters of Lidia Ciolkosz, Tadeusz Brzostek, Jerzy Landgrod, Kazimierz Sabbat, Janusz Zawadzki, Jean Leonard | 1980-1980 |
| 16 | PPS-correspondence (1980). Political articles reprints. Issues of PRZEMIANY and CITOYENS DU MONDE. | 1980-1980 |
| 17 | PPS-correspondence (1981). Letters of Janusz Zawadzki. Issues of PRZEMIANY and CITOYENS DU MONDE. | 1980-1981 |
| 18 | PPS-correspondence (1981). Letters of Tadeusz Podgórski, Janusz Zawadzki, Lidia Ciolkosz. Issues of PRZEMIANY. Correspondece with Polski Uniwersytet na Obczyznie | 1981-1988 |
| 19 | Official correspondence of Nina Kozlowska in Munich on the organization and contents of Mantel's archival documents deposited in 1980-82 in Osteuropa Institut. | 1980-1982 |
| Poliical Meetings | ||
| 20 | Eighth PPS Conference Abroad and report of Central Foreign Council, Paris 1982 | 1982-1982 |
| Political Publications | ||
| 21 | Issues of ZEW (No. 18/74; 19-20/75), CITOYENS DU MONDE, PRZEMIANY, EST ET QUEST. Statut La Societe Historique et Literaire Polonais in Paris | 1968-1976 |
| 22 | Manuscripts of Nina Kozlowska on Polish Parties in opposition to Pilsudski Regime and PPS: Die Politischen Gruppierungen Innerhalb Pilsudski Lagers 1926-1939. Zielvorrstellungen der PPS in Jahren 1941-1948 | 1982-1982 |
| Press Clippings | ||
| 23 | Press clippings (1948-1980) - News clippings from ZYCIE PRZEMYSKIE on PPS. News clippings on fusion of PPS and PPR and the Vaticans role. First contact with Z.Zaremba. Helsinki Conference 1975. Sikorski Institute in London | 1948-1980 |
| 24 | Press clippings (1980) - Strikes of Gdansk, trade union activities, from Polish and European press - DIE ZEIT, LE MONDE, CZAS, POLITYKA, TRYBUNA - February - December 1980 | 1980-1980 |
| 25 | Press clippings (1981-1982) - Martial Law in Poland from the French and German press - December 1981 - February 1982 |