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.

Feliks Mantel (1906-1990) was a lawyer, journalist and a Polish socialist leader-in-exile. Acquisition Note: Gift of Feliks Mantel ca 1984.