Collection

Jerzy Kurcyusz (1907–1988) was an activist in All-Polish Youth (Młodzież Wszechpolska), the National Party (Stronnictwo Narodowe), the Camp of Great Poland (Obóz Wielkiej Polski), and the National Radical Camp (Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny) during the Second Polish Republic. During World War II, he worked as a courier—first in France, and later organizing a communications outpost in Istanbul. After the war, he returned to Poland, where he worked as a legal counsel and defense attorney. In the 1980s, he served as an advisor to Solidarność activists and a defense lawyer in political trials.

The available collection includes diplomatic passports, identity documents, military IDs, service passes, correspondence with his wife, and business cards. Of particular interest is a diplomatic dispatch sent to Kurcyusz by "Suliman" in 1941, reporting a lack of trust in the Turks and the refusal to honor English letters of recommendation. The dispatch cites Mościbrodzki—namely Bolesław Ziemiański, head of the Polish intelligence post in Bucharest—as the source of information. The materials described represent only a small fraction of the Kurcyusz collection housed in the digital archives of the Narutowicz Institute.