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Reflections of a Radical Piłsudski Supporter: The “1941–1961 Diary” of Apoloniusz Zarychta
Michał Zarychta
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8602-7666
Oddział Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej w Warszawie
Przegląd Archiwalny Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, Vol. 18 (2025), pages: 219-246
Publication date: 2025-12-30
https://doi.org/10.48261/PAIPN251808
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Abstract
Apoloniusz Zarychta – a staunch Piłsudski supporter – was a member of the Polish Military Organisation (Polska Organizacja Wojskowa), a captain in the Polish Army, a geographer, an activist in the Maritime and Colonial League (Liga Morska i Kolonialna), an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (head of the Migration Policy Department from 1931 to 1939), and finally, an emigrant. In 1939, after the September defeat, he made his way to the West to join the Polish Armed Forces being formed. As a Piłsudski supporter, he ended up in the Officer Concentration Station in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute in Great Britain. It was there that he wrote the main part of his Diary 1941–1961, which during his stay in Brazil (where he worked amongst Polish settlers), he continued in fragmentary form and completed in 1961 upon his return to Poland. In the 1970s, this source document was transferred to the Manuscripts Department of the National Library, where it is currently stored and available to researchers. The article discusses the unknown diary of Apoloniusz Zarychta from the period of World War II and post-war Polish emigration is discussed in the article and the views of its author are related.
Keywords
Apoloniusz Zarychta • dziennik • II Rzeczypospolita Polska • Brazylia • Polskie Siły Zbrojne • Stacja Zborna Oficerów w Rothesay • migracje • kolonializm • Biblioteka Narodowa Apoloniusz Zarychta • diary • II Polish Republic • Brazil • Polish Armed Forces • Officer Concentration Station in Rothesay [Scotland] • migration • colonialism • National Library (Biblioteka Narodowa)
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