Losy zakonników i zakonnic z klasztorów skasowanych w Wielkim Księstwie Poznańskim (do 1841 r.)

Author(s): Zdzisław Włodarczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

Pursuant to the decisions of the Congress of Vienna, western parts of the Duchy of Warsaw (with Poznań and Bydgoszcz) were incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia as the Grand Duchy of Posen/the Province of Posen. Although the new ruler, Frederick William III , guaranteed tolerance for the Catholic religion practiced by most of the region’s inhabitants, this did not extend to monasteries and convents (a total of 57 sites with 454 monks and 119 nuns). These were to be gradually reduced in number, and ultimately — dissolved altogether. At the same time, circumstances did not allow for radical solutions of the kind adopted in Silesia in 1810. The plan of Prussian authorities involved a “natural” dissolution of monasteries and convents through a gradual reduction in the numbers of monks and nuns (for example by eliminating novitiate) and secularization. The implementation of these solutions accelerated after the outbreak of the November Uprising, and the subsequent designation of Eduard Flottwell as the governor. Under an administrative decision of March 31, 1833, the remaining congregations in the Grand Duchy were to be completely dissolved within 3 years. The process ultimately ended in 1841 with the death of the last reformation commissioner, and the dissolution of the Bernardine monastery in Górka (near Łobżenica) soon after. The only congregations left in the territory of the Duchy were the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in Poznań and the Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri in Gostyń, as the Prussian authorities considered them useful.

Żydowskie gminy wyznaniowe pogranicza Wielkopolski i Pałuk w okresie komasacji (1932–1939)

Author(s): Marek Szczepaniak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

After Poland’s rise to independence, the process of Jewish emigration from Greater Poland, already noticeable before, increased in intensity. Jews left behind a lot of infrastructure and real estate, as well various material possessions, mostly in houses of worship. Maintaining them turned out to exceed the financial capacity of those members of the Jewish community who stayed there. In 1932, a regulation of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Public Education was published, requiring Jewish religious communities most affected by emigration to be incorporated into larger ones, in order to enable the maintenance of the remaining property. Correspondence between the municipal authorities and the local qahal, kept in the “City of Gniezno Files” archival fond, allows to track the gradual appropriation of property from centers incorporated into the Jewish community in Gniezno. It also makes it possible to list movable and immovable property and assess its value at that time. The sources also reveal some conflicts between Jews from the dissolved communities and those from the Gniezno Jewish religious community.In 1936, new plans were developed to reorganize the network of Jewish religious communities. These involved the incorporation of the Wągrowiec province into the Gniezno community, or alternatively, incorporation of one of the provinces belonging to the Gniezno community into the Wągrowiec community (in fact, the only one that could be incorporated in this way was the Żnin province). In the end, the national administration withdrew from this idea. Two years later, in connection with a reform introducing a new administrative division in Poland, ideas for a spatial reorganization of Jewish communities appeared again. However, no such changes were made before the Second World War.

Odbudowa administracji gminnej w Wielkopolsce po II wojnie światowej — uwarunkowania, kadry i biurowość

Author(s): Sylwia Stryjkowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

The organization of chancelleries and the work methods used there significantly affected the records produced, and as a result — the fonds remaining at archival institutions where some of these records are stored. The article discusses the beginnings and conditions of the establishment of communal administration in Greater Poland after the end of the war in 1945. It presents the chancellery regulations used in administration offices, as well as their staffing levels, qualifications, and remuneration.

Młodzież przeciwko zniewoleniu. Opór społeczny i działalność konspiracyjna wśród młodzieży szkolnej w okresie stalinowskim w świetle wybranych przykładów z różnych części Wielkopolski

Author(s): Zbigniew Bereszyński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

In the years 1946–1947, the communist authorities gradually eliminated their legal political opposition gathered in the Polish People’s Party. The amnesty that followed turned out to be a deadly blow to the so-called underground state, whose members continued their activity after the Second World War. Under these circumstances, the opposition of youth, growing up in post-war Poland, gradually gained in significance. The progressing Sovietization of social life in Poland was met with various forms of opposition and resistance in these circles, and prompted spontaneous acts of conspiracy among school-goers. Such initiatives were also born in Greater Poland. They did not pose any real threat for the communist state, but the authorities treated them seriously and responded with acts of repression. This is discussed in the present paper, based on examples from various parts of the region.

Służba archiwalna Polskich Sił Powietrznych w latach II wojny światowej

Author(s): Klaudia Kierepka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

The Historical Commission, established in Paris in March 1940, can be considered the first archival cell of the Air Force, however, it never became operational. Records of the Air Force were evacuated in June 1940 to the United Kingdom by office workers, and deposited in Blackpool. In September 1940, the Records Liquidation Commission of the former Air Force Command in Paris was established, and existed until March 1941. After that time, its activities came to a halt. Based on its structures, in December 1941, the Aviation Historical Bureau was established. Its tasks included gathering, processing, and storing documents. In January 1945, the Bureau was incorporated into the Archival and Museum Services, and in July, the Bureau was transferred to Dunholme Lodge, where it remained until 1948, when it terminated its operations. In the final years of its existence, the Historical Bureau mainly dealt with processing and classifying the collections. Eventually, the records and memorabilia kept by the Air Force were deposited in the Sikorski Historical Institute in London.

Archiwum Państwowe w Poznaniu w pierwszych latach po zakończeniu II wojny światowej

Author(s): Justyna Pera / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

The article discusses the problems that the State Archive in Poznań struggled with soon after the termination of military operations and in the first years of its existence, i.e. until 1951. The main sources for this paper include reports and working plans drafted in the State Archive in Poznań in the years 1945–1951, as well as the operating standards regulating the work of this institution. The publication also raises the issue of protecting and gathering archival materials, as well as the difficulties posed by the complete destruction of the building and the resulting lack of appropriate spaces for secure storage of both new records and files, and ones recovered after the war.

Henryk Kowalewicz (1925–1981). W 40. rocznicę śmierci

Author(s): Monika Sak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

Roman Dąbrowski (1936–2020)

Author(s): Jarosław Matysiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

Nieco nowego światła na niektóre z najstarszych dokumentów placówki joannitów w Poznaniu

Author(s): Tadeusz W. Lange / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

The digitization of medieval diplomas that are the property of the Wróblewski Library at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (formerly the Eustachy and Emilia Wróblewscy State Library in Vilnius) and sharing them with scholars in color and high resolution has enabled the verification of previous findings regarding some of the oldest documents of the Poznań commandery of the Knights of the Order of St John — namely, diplomas no. 104 and 117, and to some degree diploma no. 213, from the Greater Poland Diplomatic Code, vol. 1.

Konferencja naukowa „Twoje strzały tkwią w nas, a Twa ręka nas dusi”. Epidemie na ziemi wschowskiej i pograniczu wielkopolsko-śląskim. Wschowa–Leszno, 21–22 października 2021 r.

Author(s): Marta Tatiana Małkus / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

Starość wiejska z terenów pogranicza kujawsko-wielkopolskiego. Interpretacja międzywojennych świadectw notarialnych gwarantujących „dożywocie”

Author(s): Bartłomiej Gapiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

The paper aims at presenting a specific historical source, namely notarial annuity provisions typically included in sale agreements, but also used in acts of donation and wills. The analyzed source comes from the inter-war period and concerns a village in the Kujawy and Greater Poland borderland (former Prussian territory). In the first part, the author presents the dynamically developing field of history that is history of the elderly. Then, the determinants of the specific character of the elderly in rural areas are described. The next part discusses the concept of old age established in “magical culture” (or “myth”), which is mainly reconstructed by ethnologists and historians of old age. Afterwards, the determinants of annuities during the Prussian occupation are demonstrated. The inter-war period is analyzed based on sample excerpts from annuity agreements, with interpretation of these documents and the way they were implemented in reality. The paper ends with conclusions and a reference to similar documents still being drafted now.

IV edycja Nagród dla archiwistów województwa wielkopolskiego 2020/2021

Author(s): Rafał Kościański / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

Konferencja naukowa Śląsk Opolski w dobie powstań 1919–1921. W setną rocznicę wybuchu III Powstania Śląskiego, Muzeum w Praszce, 10 września 2021 r.

Author(s): Maria Feliks / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

Rada Ministrów i premier Józef Cyrankiewicz wobec pogrzebu prof. Raula Koczalskiego (1884–1948) na Cmentarzu Jeżyckim w Poznaniu 29 listopada 1948 r.

Author(s): Maciej Kijowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

In the resolution of the Council of Ministers of December 29, 1948, the State undertook to finance the funeral of an exceptional pianist, Professor Raul Koczalski, who died on November 24 and was buried on November 29 in Poznań. This decision is the subject of this article. For the author, this decision of the government, and in particular — of prime minister Józef Cyrankiewicz — is the ultimate proof that the state dismissed the unsubstantiated accusations that appeared after the Second World War concerning the alleged collaboration between the artist and Nazi war criminals. The author discusses the final artistic achievements of Koczalski, and compares the cost of his funeral and the time in which it was reimbursed with other state-organized funerals in the years 1947–1948. He also comments on the legal acts adopted in the years 1954, 1960, and 1990, in which the power to make decisions regarding the financing of funerals of distinguished individuals was passed first to the top ministers, and then the Prime Minister personally.

Doktorzy Honoris Causa Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, t. I–IV, oprac. S. Sierpowski, J. Malinowski, Poznań 2014–2020

Author(s): Piotr Józefiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

Waldemar Kiełbowski, Służyli Niepodległej. Rzecz o losach powstańców wielkopolskich 1918–1919 roku z Czerniejewa i okolic, ss. 399 + 6nlb, Gniezno 2021

Author(s): Marek Szczepaniak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

Halina Gajdzik, Doświadczony łaską Bożą, mocny wiarą, nadzieją i miłością. Biografia księdza prałata Ignacego Rabsztyna, Bobrowniki 2020, ss. 188

Author(s): Michał Widera / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

Archiwa uczelniane w XXI wieku wobec komputeryzacji, informatyzacji i elektronicznego zarządzania dokumentacją. Wprowadzenie do problematyki, pod red. B. Kierzkowskiej, A. Supruniuk, P. Bunkowskiej, Toruń 2021, ss. 269 (ilustr.)

Author(s): Monika Marcinkowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

Dzień Archiwisty, w latach 2019–2021

Author(s): Beata Karwalska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021

VIII Wiosenne Spotkania Archiwalne: Dobre praktyki zarządzania dokumentacją, Toruń, 20–21 maja 2021 r.

Author(s): Piotr Józefiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2021