This website and it's contents © The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum 2008-2012 and no part may  be reproduced without permission. All rights reserved. The Archives Keeper of Archives: Dr Andrzej Suchcitz Deputy Keeper of Archives: Miss Jadwiga Kowalska MA The Archive reading room is open: Tuesday - Friday 9.30 - 4.00 pm (files cannot be ordered between 12.30 and 2 pm or after 3.30 pm) The reading room is closed throughout February. Photocopies: 40 pence per copy (b/w), colour £ 1.00p Digital camera: 25 pence per photo. Rules governing the use of the reading room (pdf - 126 KB)   The first two pages of Gen. W. Sikorski's  letter to President W. Raczkiewicz with  Gen. Sikorski's hand written additions.  (13.6.1941)   The Institute Archives cover approximately 1.5 kilometres of shelving, including 250 metres of the  Polish Underground Movement (1939-1945) Study Trust collections.   The majority of the documentation held in the Archives pertain to the period of the Second World  War 1939-1945 and Poland's role in it. Researchers will also find the papers of the Polish Goverment in  Exile, residing in London between 1945 and 1990, as well as fragmentary documentation for the inter  war period 1918-1939.   The Archives are basically divided into three parts:   - Documents relating to the Polish Goverment and its administration beginning with the Chancellery of  the President of the Republic, the Council of Ministers, the National Council (parliament in exile),  individual ministries, embassies, legations and commissions.   - Documents relating to the Polish Armed Forces starting with the C-in-C's Secretariat, General Staff,  Ministry of National Defence, corps, divisions, regiments, battalions, companies, military schools and  institutions. There is also a large collection of written depositions concerning the 1939 Polish Campaign,  unit daily orders and unit war diaries and chronicles. The Polish Navy and the Polish Air Force papers  form a separate subsection. In both cases the documents cover their respective headquarters, through to  the papers of individual squadrons and warships together with non combat institutions.   - Personal and Subject Collections of which there  are over 680. These are the papers of individual  persons and institutions. They include papers of  politicians, soldiers, diplomats, academics,  writers, painters and actors as well as of various  societies, veterans associations, academic and  press institutions.   Since the establishment of the Institute there have been four Keepers of Archives: 1. Dr. Edmund Oppman (1945-1951) 2. Regina Oppman (1951-1980) 3. Capt. Wacław Milewski (1980-1989) 4. Dr. Andrzej Suchcitz (1989- ) Dr. Edmund Oppman Keeper of Archives 1945-1951. Mrs. Regina Oppman M.A. Keeper of Archives 1951- 1980. Capt. Wacław Milewski Keeper of Archives 1980-1989. The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum