Suggested Reading List

Polish migration to Australia and
the Polish Australian community

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General literature - Polish community

Lech Paszkowski. Poles in Australia and Oceania 1790-1940, Canberra Press, Melbourne, 1987.

Lech Paszkowski. Polacy w Australii i Oceanii 1790-1940. Melbourne, 1961.

Rachel Unikoski. Communal Endeavours. Migrant Organisations in Melbourne. Australian National University Press, 1978.

Zdzislaw Derwinski ed. Kronika Federacji Polskich Organizacji w Wiktorii 1962-1992. Polish Community Council of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993.

Jerzy Grot-Kwasniewski. Czterdziesci lat Polonii australijskiej na lamach Tygodnika Polskiego. Contal, Melbourne, 1991.

Roland Sussex & Jerzy Zubrzycki ed.  Polish people and culture in Australia. Australian National University, Canberra, 1985.

Literature on Polish post-World War II settlement

Maryon Allbrook & Helen Cattalini. The General Langfitt Story. BIMPR, Canberra 1995.

Stanislaw Gotowicz. Bittersweet Bread. Minerva Press, London, 1998.


Literature on Polish ex-serviceman

Dr. Marek Ostrowski  "To return or not to return" - the dilemma facing the Polish armed forces at the end of the Second World War
(thesis - in English)


Sociological Studies on the Polish Australian community

Ruth Johnston. The assimilation myth. A study of second generation Polish immigrants in Western Australia. Martinus Nijhoff, the Hague, 1969.

Jerzy Smolicz. The Australian school through children's eyes: a Polish-Australian view. Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1981.

Jerzy Smolicz. Australijczycy polskiego pochodzenia: studium adaptacji i asymilacji mlodego pokolenia. Zaklad Narod. im. Ossolinskich, Wroclaw, 1984.

Specific issues/topics

Lech Paszkowski. Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki - Reflections on his life. Arcadia Publishing,  Melbourne, 1997.

Keith Sword. Deportation and exile: Poles in the Soviet Union 1939-48. University of London, 1994.


Literature on Polish literature or by Polish Australian writers

Andrzej Chciuk. Rejs do Smithton. Stary Ocean, Paris, 1960.

Andrzej Chciuk. Pamietnik poetycki. Melbourne, 1961.

Andrzej Chciuk. Atlantyda. London, 1969.

Andrzej Chciuk. Towarzysze z bezpieczenstwo. London, 1970.

Andrzej Chciuk. Wizyta w Izraelu. Paris, 1972

Andrzej Chciuk. Emigrancka opowiesc. London, 1975.

Andrzej Chciuk. Trzysta miesiec. Toronto, 1983.

Andrzej Gawronski. Z kangurem pod reka. Melbourne, 1962

Andrzej Gawronski. Do gory nogami. Melbourne 1981

Andrzej Gawronski.  Moj punkt widzenia. Torun, 1999.

Boleslaw Korpowski. Smiglem i piorem. Polish Art Foundation, Melbourne 1989.

Bogumila Zongollowicz. Andrzej Chciuk - Pisarz z antypodow. Wydaw. Literackie, Krakow, 1999.

Literature on general migrant settlement issues in Australia and multiculturalism

Jerzy Zubrzycki. Arthur Calwell and the origin of post-war immigration. Australian Government Pub. Service, Canberra, 1995.