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Szylling family fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1899-1978.

Reference:

R14903-0-5-E, MG30-C137

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

190578

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Szylling family fonds
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Fonds includes:

1 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1899-1978.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

ca. 2.4 m of textual records.
6 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of the papers of Mrs. Maria Dobrowolska-Frankowska-Szylling, her first husband Stefan Frankowski and her second husband, Antoni Szylling as well as correspondence and personal material of Zofia Bajkowska-Szylling, Jerzy Szylling and Karol Szylling.

Also includes the few early documents of both of her husbands that survived the war, some of her personal and family papers from Poland and her brother Alexander Dobrowolski, who was in the Polish Diplomatic Service, and some material recovered from Poland in the 1960's. Most of the material dates since the Second World War, the largest part being correspondence, notes and the manuscript of General Szylling. Also of particular interest are the diaries of Maria Roza Szylling recording her experiences during the first World War, the reminiscences of her mother, focussing largely on her experiences during the Second World War and the correspondence of Szylling's friend and colleague, General Kazimierz Sosnkowski. The fonds also helps to document the life of the Polish emigrés and immigrants in Canada after the Second World War.

Several items are in horizontal storage, container 13. Included are: school certificates; officer's Training Centre Canadian Army certificate, 1945; the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer obligation, 1948; and a military appointment, 1945.

In addition, there is a panoramic group photograph of J. Adler of "C" Company Platoon, Farnham, Quebec, 18 July 1944; portrait of Private Antoni Szylling, ca. 1944; group photograph of Officers' Training Centre (O.T.C.) Brockville, Ontario, December 1944 and Officer Selection and Appraisal Centre (O.S.A.) Wing Platoon No. 9; funerals of Hamilton Airman P.O. Donald W. Adams. R.C.A.F., Hamilton, Ontario, June 24, 1944.

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Szylling (family)
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Szylling, Antoni, 1884-1971

Frankowski, Stefan, 1887-1940

Dobrowolska, Maria Roza, 1896-1986

Dobrowolska-Frankowska-Szylling, Maria, 1896-1986

Szylling family

Szylling (Famille)
Biography/Administrative history:

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Szylling, Antoni, 1884-1971 : Antoni Szylling (1884-l971) was born in Ptomiawy near Warsaw. During his military career, in the Polish Army, he attained the rank of Lieutenant General. As a Russian subject Szylling was a member of the Imperial Russian Army during World War I. He fought in the Polish Army against Soviet Russia in the Polish-Bolshevik War in 1920. During the German invasion in September l939, he commanded the Krakow Army. Like many other Polish officers and soldiers, he was captured and held as a prisoner-of-war at Murnav until 1945. After coming to Canada in 1947, Szylling lived on a farm at Abercorn, not far from Montreal. He was active in the Polish emigré community and he also corresponded with his military colleagues. He wrote an unpublished study of his command: "Moje dowodzenie roku 39-ym".

Frankowski, Stefan, 1887-1940 : Stefan Frankowski (1887-1940) chose a naval career in his youth and rose to the rank of Rear-Admiral, Commander of the Polish Coastal Defence in Gdynia-Oksynne. He died not long after Poland's defeat in a German prisoner-of-war camp at Silberberg. In 1922, Frankowski married Maria Roza Dobrowolska and they had two children: Stefan and Jolanka.

Dobrowolska, Maria Roza, 1896-1986 : Maria Roza Dobrowolska was born in 1896 in the Kiev region, of Polish-Scottish parentage. In 1922, she married Stefan Frankowski. She was evacuated from Poland in 1939 and in 1940 moved to Canada, selecting Montreal as her home. In 1947, she was joined there by her mother and in 1949 she remarried, this time to General Antoni Szylling. Mrs. Szylling was active in the Polish community and was a contributor to Polish-language newspapers. She also wrote an unpublished history of her family entitled: "Monografia Klucza Tulinskiego na tle Genealogii Wlascicieli". She died in Vancouver on l3 April 1986.

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Textual records: (Paper) Finding aid is a file list. MSS2133

Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS2133
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000657.pdf

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General note:

Presented by Mrs. Maria Dobrowolska-Frankowska-Szylling in 1976 and 1977.
Subject heading:

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Immigrants Canada

World War, 1939-1945

Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1976/0441
1977/0262
1977/0291
1978-106 NPC
1978/0291
1978/0333
2006-00571-5
MG30-C137

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MG30-C137
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000213.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Volume [MG30 C 137] 1--13

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

Finding aid box [FA 2133] 154

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [SZYLLING, MRS. M.R. 1978-106] 3928

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Photograph: No restrictions. Copyright expired. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative number.

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Date modified:: 2024-05-10