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Benedykt Heydenkorn fonds [textual record, object]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1931-1992.

Reference:

R9157-0-1-E, MG31-D237

Type of material:

Textual material, Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

190551

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Benedykt Heydenkorn fonds
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Date(s):

1931-1992.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.6 m of textual records.
6 lapel pins.
4 ribbons.

Language of material:

English

Accession:

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Benedykt Heydenkorn fonds [textual record]

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Fonds consists of personal and biographical material; correspondence with individuals, organizations and editors of Polish periodicals; material about the Canadian Polish Congress, the National Council of the Republic of Poland, and the Polish National Fund Committee; church matters; the Consulate General of Poland; research topics and related material, volumes 1-8, 1931-1992.

The fonds also contains a collection of conference delegate ribbons and Polish and Soviet lapel pins, ca. 1940-1980.

Provenance:

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Heydenkorn, Benedykt, 1906-1999

Biography/Administrative history:

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Heydenkorn, Benedykt, 1906-1999 : Benedykt Heydenkorn was born in 1905 in Stara Bircza, Poland. He began his journalistic career in 1926 while still a student by contributing to various Polish newspapers. He graduated from the University of Warsaw in 1930 and continued his journalistic career in various capacities, including as editor for a number of Polish publications. He also worked for foreign press agencies including the Warsaw office of the French news agency HAVAS as a political-parliamentary correspondent.

With the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, he was captured and imprisoned in the Soviet Union. When the Polish Army was organized in the Soviet Union, he was released in 1941 and returned to his journalistic career serving in the Polish Second Corps until the end of the War. He was demobilized in 1946 in England. In London, England, he continued his journalistic career in the local Polish political press.

In November 1949, he immigrated with his wife to southern Ontario. He immediately became involved with the local Polish community organizations including the Canadian Polish Congress. In addition to his work in various jobs, he continued his journalistic career as correspondent to the Polish Daily in London, England and, in 1952, in the Polish Canadian press. He was Assistant Editor of Glos Polski (The Polish Voice) in Toronto. In 1957, he joined the newspaper, Zwiazkowiec (The Alliancer) in Toronto and became Editor-in-Chief from 1964 until his formal retirement in 1977.

Mr. Heydenkorn was also involved in the research and writing of a number of historical, political and sociological studies in Polish and English on the Polish community in Canada including co-author of A Member of a Distinguished Family, The Polish Group in Canada (1976).

Finding aid:

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Textual records: (Paper) The finding aid is a file list. MSS1947

Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS1947
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000506.pdf

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General note:

Benedykt Heydenkorn donated these records to Library and archives Canada in 1993.

Related material:

Historical information in this fonds complements information in the Polish Alliance Press Ltd. papers (MG28 V25), Canadian Polish Congress collection (MG28 V10) and the Adam Zurowski papers (MG31 D233).

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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120-020142-6
1993-406 DAP
1993/0053
93-248
MG31-D237

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-D237
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R9157] 1--8

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1947] 143

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Medals 14290--14299

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Objects: No restrictions on use. Various copyrights. Credit: National Archives of Canada. Documents must be consulted under close supervision for conservation reasons.

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