The collection contains documents on the political, cultural, and economic activities of the Polish Legation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Political reports, official correspondence, circulars, printed bulletins, cables, war reports, copies of treaties, speeches, radio reports, and visas and applications of the Legation. Official communications, correspondence, classified documents of the Polish Government-in-Exile. Memoranda, instructions, circulars, and diplomatic instructions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw, Paris, Angers, and London, 1939-1945. Documents relating to foreign diplomatic relations; League of Nations; Free City of Danzig; Polish-Soviet War, 1919-1920; the death of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, 1935; Polish, Jewish and Germans immigration to South America; trade agreements; Jews in Poland and World War II. Diplomatic reports on Brazils political crisis and the German national movement in Brazil. Publications, manuscripts, typescripts, and photocopied records of the Polish Government activities, 1918-1945. Arrangement in Series: Attache Ministry of Defense, Circulars and Instructions of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Diplomatic Posts - Consulates in Cutiriba and Sao Paulo, Diplomatic Reports, Political Correspondence of Polish Legation, Political Publications, New Acquisitions 2001.

Acquisition Note: Gift of Ambassador Tadeusz Skowronski, ca 1963.