Links

The Institute welcomes suggestions for inclusion of other relevant links. Please send your suggestions to director@polhistinst.org.au.

Australia

• History of the Polish community in Australia
• Polish organisations and community websites
• Polish-Australian magazines on the internet
• Polish websites in PANDORA
• Collections Australia Network [CAN]
  • Gateway to more than 1,500 museums, galleries, archives and libraries throughout Australia
• Multicultural networks in Australia
• Australian archives
• Australian historical societies
• Australian immigration museums
• Embassy and Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Australia

World

• Archives of Polish émigrés
• Polonia organisations
• Forum Polonijne

History of the Polish community in Australia

• Australian Historic Records Register - contains descriptions of a number of collections of private papers and records of Polish community organisations that were identified during the Australian Bicentennial Historic Records Search (May 1987 to April 1988).
• Polish Museum & Archives in Australia Inc. - includes a short history of the Polish community in Victoria
• Polish Studies and Culture Foundation, Newsletter No 1, August, 1996
• Polonica Research and Documentation Centre Inc. (Polonica Centre)
• Australia Displaced Persons Down Under - part of an American site on all displaced persons camps around the world
• Mt Kosciuszko Website by the Mt Kosciuszko Association - provides information about the conquest of Mt Kosciuszko and about Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki
• The General Langfitt Story: Polish Refugees Recount Their Experiences of Exile, Dispersal and Resettlement - an online version of the book by Maryon Allbrook and Helen Cattalini published in 1995
• Australia - serwis dla wszystkich zainteresowanych Australia - includes a section on history of Poles in Australia
• Statistics
  • http://www.immi.gov.au/statistics/stat_info/comm_summ/poland.pdf
  • http://www.fecca.org.au/Resources/census/

Polish organisations and community websites

• Australia wide
  • Rada Naczelna Polskich Organizacji w Australii (Polish Community Council of Australia)
  • Official page of Polish community in Australia
  • SBS Radio - Polish Language Program | SBS Radio - streaming radio in Polish
  • Society of Christ for Polish Migrants
• ACT
  • Polonet, Polish Australian Community Network
• New South Wales
  • Polska Szkola w Sydney (Polish School of Sydney)
• Queensland
  • Polish Association of Queensland
• South Australia
  • Polish Scouting Association ZHP in South Australia Inc. (includes 40 lat ZHP w Australii 1949-1989)
  • Tatry - Polish Foklore Ensemble
• Tasmania
  • Polish Association in Hobart Inc.
• Victoria
  • Polish Community Council of Victoria Incorporated (Federacja Polskich Organizacji w Wiktorii)
  • Australian-Polish Community Services assisting the Polish community in Victoria to meet their social welfare needs
  • Open Road - Polish pages
  • Polonez - Polish Song and Dance Ensemble
• Western Australia
  • Cracovia Club Inc. - a Polish Community Centre in Beechboro, WA
  • Western Australian Association for Polish Women Inc.

Polish-Australian magazines on the internet

• CyberExpress Magazyn Internetowy - published in Sydney, NSW
• Kraj - Niezalezny Magazyn Polski - published in Brisbane, Queensland, by Niezalezna Polska Oficyna Wydawnicza "KRAJ"
• Kronika Polonii - published by the Council of Polish Organisations in the ACT Inc. 3-4 times a year
• Kurier Zachodni - published by the Polish Australian Cultural Society in Western Australia Inc. ten times a year

Polish websites in PANDORA

PANDORA is a digital archive dedicated to the preservation of and long term access to Australian online publications of national significance maintained by the National Library of Australia.

• Polish Historical Institute in Australia
• Polonica Centre - Official page of Polish community in Australia
• Rada Naczelna Polskich Organizacji w Australii (Polish Community Council of Australia)
• Feliks Dangel - a Migrants Story

Multicultural networks in Australia

• Australia wide
  • State and Territory Multicultural Offices - list of links provided by the Department of Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs
  • Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia
• Queensland
  • Multicultural Bridge (Queensland)
• South Australia
  • Multicultural Web South Australia
• Victoria
  • Open Road
  • VICNET Multicultural
• Western Australia
  • Online WA Multicultural Communities Gateway

Australian archives

• Australia wide
  • National Archives of Australia
  • Australian War Memorial
  • ScreenSound Australia, the National Screen and Sound Archive
  • Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts (RAAM)
  • Archives of Australia Gateway
  • Directory of Archives in Australia
  • Australia's Oral History Collections: a National Directory
• New South Wales
  • State Records, New South Wales
• Northern Territory
  • Northern Territory Archives Service
• Queensland
  • Queensland State Archives
• South Australia
  • State Records of South Australia
• Tasmania
  • Archives Office of Tasmania
• Victoria
  • Public Records Office Victoria
• Western Australia
  • State Records Office of Western Australia
  • Migration Research Network Database - provided by Curtin University of Technology

Australian historical societies

• Australia wide
  • Federation of Australian Historical Societies
• Australian Capital Territory
  • Canberra & District Historical Society
• New South Wales
  • Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS) - over 360 local and regional historical societies throughout NSW are affiliated with the RAHS
• Northern Territory
  • Historical Society of the Northern Territory
• Queensland
  • Royal Historical Society of Queensland
• South Australia
  • Historical Society of South Australia
• Tasmania
  • Tasmania's eHeritage provides a catalogue containing over 110,000 entries from Tasmanian local history associations
• Victoria
  • Royal Historical Society of Victoria - the umbrella organisation for more than 260 local and specialist historical societies throughout Victoria
• Western Australia
  • Royal Western Australian Historical Society

Australian immigration museums

• Albury Regional Museum, Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre
• Immigration Museum of Victoria
• Malta Virtual Emigration Museum
• Migration Heritage Centre - while not strictly a museum, the MHC works on projects relating to migration and refugee heritage as part of the cultural heritage of NSW
• Migration Museum of South Australia
• Polish Hill River Church Museum - established by Wspólnota Polska w Poludniowej Australii

Archives of Polish émigrés

• Institutions and Archives of Polish communities abroad preserving archival materials - service provided by the State Archives in Poland
• Rada Dziedzictwa Archiwalnego
  • English version
  • Polish version
• Archival Information Centre - service of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America
• Archiwum Emigracji - Archives of Polish Emigration at the Nicolaus Copernicus University Library in Torun, Poland
• Stala Konferencja Muzeow, Archiwow i Bibliotek Polskich na Zachodzie - service of Biblioteka Polska w Montrealu
• Archives of Polish emigres for the Polish Heritage Trust Museum & Library

Polonia organisations

• Polonia dla Polonii - an Internet magazine provided by Polska Agencja Prasowa SA
• Polonia Swiata - provides information on Polish communities abroad (this website is affiliated with Kongres Polonii Niemieckiej)
• Swiat Polonii - a Polish website dedicated to collecting and making available information about Poles and Polish communities living abroad
• Forum Polonijne - a Polish news website
• Puls Polonii - on-line Polish news