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The article examines the contacts between Polish and Ukrainian libraries as they developed after 1990, when both countries began to reveal and make increasingly available the collections taken over and displaced as a result of WWII. What was particularly important for Polish librarians was access to book collections of Polish origin held by Ukrainian libraries as well as new information about collections that constituted part of Poland's cultural heritage. On the Polish side, this cooperation involved the National Library (Biblioteka Narodowa) and the Ossolinski National Institute in Wroclaw (Biblioteka Zakladu Narodowego im. Ossolinskich), universities and non-governmental organisations. 1996 was marked by the launch of the Polish-Ukrainian Intergovernmental Commission for the Protection and Return of Cultural Goods Lost and Unlawfully Displaced during WWII. Teams dealing with library collections and with Ossolineum were established within the Commission. The last twenty years have seen many joint conferences and research projects, including those dealing with the protection and preservation of various collections. On both sides of the border there have been many publications devoted to polonica in Ukraine and ukrainica in Poland; these include monographs, studies collection catalogues, internet databases, etc. A selection of these publications is presented in two annexes to this article.
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Bohdan Korzeniewski (1905-1992), an outstanding expert in the field of the theatre, director, teacher and translator, was also involved with Polish librarianship. In 1932-1938 he worked in the National Library and contributed to its organisational concept and creation of the controversial theatrical department. After Korzeniewski took a leave in 1938, the department was headed by Jozef Kuroczycki. In 1941 Korzeniewski was employed in the University Library in Warsaw, participating in acquiring and protecting book collections from Warsaw, also after the Warsaw Rising, thus protecting the treasures of national literary heritage. In May 1945, before capitulation of Germany, Korzeniewski and Witold Jablonski set out in search of book collections taken away from Warsaw in 1944. The events are described in the report on the trip to Görbitsch in May and June 1945 submitted on 9th June. The article includes an annexe on two sources: so far unpublished texts by Bohdan Korzeniewski's 'Comments' on the report on the work in the National Library in 1937 and the 'Report of the Delegates of the Ministry of Education on the Trip to Goerbitsch near Frankfurt on the Oder and the Repossession of Books from the Libraries in Warsaw' from June 1945.
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The article discusses the problem of cultural goods and works of art displaced as a result of WW II, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe. Since the 1990s restitution of collections, including library collections, has been an important problem. Restitution is based on documentation work, registration of losses, source publications and release of previously unknown archive records. Various solutions concerning restitution are illustrated with examples from Germany, Russia, Hungary, Poland and the Ukraine. A separate international problem involves the property of Holocaust victims - its existence is being revealed, it is being restored to the heirs of former owners, general principles of solutions applied in the process are being developed. The authoress also presents Poland's efforts to recover various collections from Germany, Russia, the Ukraine and the United States in the context of currently binding agreements and legal acts, as well as cooperation between various states with respect to the documentation, protection, conservation and editing of disputed collections.
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