The World List

The World List of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme includes eighteen Polish documentary heritage items (including three international ones).

  • The autograph of “De revolutionibus” by Nicolaus Copernicus – held in the collection of the Jagiellonian University Library in Kraków.
  • Fryderyk Chopin’s autographs – held in the collection of the National Library in Warsaw and the Fryderyk Chopin Society (now the Fryderyk Chopin Institute) in Warsaw.
  • The Ringelblum Archive (the underground archive of the Warsaw Ghetto) – held in the collection of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.
  • The Act of the Warsaw Confederation of 1573 – held in the State Archives, in the collection of the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw.
  • Boards with the 21 Gdańsk Postulates of August 1980 – held in the collection of the Central Maritime Museum in Gdańsk together with the collection of documentation called “The Birth of Solidarity” – stored in the KARTA Centre in Warsaw
  • The Codex Suprasliensis (joint entry with Slovenia and Russia) – a Polish fragment kept in the National Library in Warsaw.
  • The Archives of the National Education Commission – the preserved parts of the archival complex stored in the Scientific Library of the Polish Academy of Skills (PAU) and the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) in Kraków, in the State Archives, in the collection of the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw, in the Archives of the Jagiellonian University, and in the Princes Czartoryski Foundation in the National Museum in Krakow – the Princes Czartoryski Library in Kraków.
  • The Archives of the Literary Institute in Paris, kept by the “Kultura” Literary Institute Association based in Maisons Laffitte.
  •  The Radziwiłł Archive and Nesvizh Book Collection (joint entry by Belarus, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Ukraine) – the Polish part of the archival complex held in the State Archives, in the collection of the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw.
  • The Archives of the Capital Reconstruction Bureau – held in the State Archives, in the collection of the State Archives in Warsaw.
  • The peace treaties (ahdnames) concluded between the second half of the 15th to the end of the 18th century between the Kingdom of Poland and the Turkish Empire – held in the State Archives, in the collection of the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw.
  • Collections from the 19th century of the Historical and Literary Society / Polish Library in Paris / Adam Mickiewicz Museum in Paris – held by the Polish Library Association in Paris.
  • The Book of Henryków – held in the Wrocław Archdiocesan Archive.
  • The Deeds of the Bohemian Brethren – the main part of the collection is held in the State Archives in Poznań, the rest is held in the Kórnik Library and the Raczyński Library in Poznań.
  • The Act of the Union of Lublin of 1569 – held in the State Archives, in the collection of the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw.
  • Polish radio intelligence documents from the period of the Battle of Warsaw in 1920 – held in the Central Military Archives.
  • Jürgen Stroop’s report “Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk – in Warschau mehr! (The Jewish residential district in Warsaw no longer exists!)” – held in the archives of the Institute of National Remembrance.
  • The documents on the Hanseatic League (joint entry by Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Germany and Poland) – the Polish part, the Poundage registers from the years 1369-1371, are stored in the State Archives in Toruń.