Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego

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Name (Latin)
Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego
Other forms of name
S.P.Kh. (Soi︠u︡z polʹskogo khart︠s︡erstva)
SPKh (Soi︠u︡z polʹskogo khart︠s︡erstva)
Soi︠u︡z polʹskogo khart︠s︡erstva (Poland)
Z.H.P. (Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego)
Soiuz polskogo khartserstva (Poland)
SPKh
ZHP (Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego)
S.P.Kh
Szare Szeregi (Poland)
Associated country
Poland
Field of activity
Scouting (Youth activity)
scouts youth organization members societies etc
Associated Language
pol
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 121608300
Wikidata: Q1995166
Library of congress: n 82165966
Sources of Information
  • Its website, viewed 20 Aprt. 2016:home p. (Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego; ZHP [in seal]) contact p. (head office: ul. Konopnickiej 6, 00-491 Warszawa)
  • Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego page (Związeg Harcerstwa Polskiego; ZHP; largest Polish scouting organization; established 1 November 1918 as an association of all earlier scouting organizations in Poland; the same name used by other scouting organizations since 1916 ( (Wikipedia, Wolna encyklopedia, March 8, 2016:) )
  • Wikipedia, viewed 20 Apr. 2016(Polish Scouting and Guiding Association, Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego, ZHP; the Polish Scout movement was started in 1910; the ZHP was officially founded by the merging of existing groups when the Partitions of Poland came to an end in 1918; during World War II, the ZHP were branded criminals by Nazi Germany and the wartime Scouts evolved into the underground paramilitary Szare Szeregi, Gray Ranks; in 1945, ZHP was restored but was banned by the Communist authorities in 1949; revived in 1956 when the Polish United Workers' Party youth movement ZMP OH (Organizacja Harcerska Związku Młodzieży Polskiej, 1950-1956) was transformed and renamed to ZHP; until 1980, the new ZHP did not consider itself as a continuation of the pre-war ZHP but as a new organization) under Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego poza granicami Kraju (ZHP pgK, established in 1946, was a continuation of the pre-World War II organization, Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego, ZHP, which had been evacuated to Great Britain in 1940 and moved its headquarters from Castlemains to London in 1943)
  • Grodecka, E. O metodzie harcerskiej ... 1943.
  • Wisniewska, M. Harcerz, zonierz, obywatel--, 1987:t.p. (Szarych Szeregow)