[Scouting] Hm KAPISZEWSKI Henryk - set of documents [1936-1947].

Set of 9 documents including ID cards, cards, invitation issued to Henryk Kapiszewski [1899 Niżankowice - 1964 Kraków] - lawyer, clerk, historian, archivist, scoutmaster and scout activist. Since 1913 he belonged to the Polish Scouting Association and in 1920 he received the title of scoutmaster. He was active on the editorial board of the magazine "Na Tropie" from 1928, was a member of the Scouts' Headquarters, and from 1935 served as head of the Foreign Department of the ZHP Headquarters.During the Second Polish Republic, he was an employee of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Prague from 1923 to 1926 and in the presidential department of the Silesian Provincial Office in Katowice from 1926 to 1939. In July 1939, he was appointed a counselor in the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs A graduate of the Faculty of Law at the Jagiellonian University. After the outbreak of World War II and the defeat of the Polish defensive war, holding a diplomatic passport, he made his way through Romania to France. On October 9, 1939, Michal Grazynski formed the Supreme Executive Committee of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association. In France, he was a soldier in the 4th Infantry Division. After the 1940 French campaign and the fall of France, he was active in the resistance movement there. He was arrested by the Gestapo, but escaped. After finding his wife [who served as a Girl Scout leader in France], he made his way through Spain to Great Britain. After the war, he returned to Poland with his wife in 1947, and was persecuted by the communist authorities of People's Poland [surveillance, interrogation by the SB]. In the late 1940s and early 1950s he worked as a night watchman, and from October 1956 he worked at the State Archives in Cracow as a senior archivist. He was a member of the Polish Historical Society and the Polish Archaeological Society.