Różnorodność źródeł archiwalnych jako podstawa w badaniach nad biografią i genealogią – przypadek Barbary Toporskiej

Archival sources, helpful in biographic research, are of particular importance in the case of writers in exile, whose biographies – intersected by war and exile – often remain incomplete to this day and needsupplementing. The biography of Barbara Toporska (1913–1985) is an example of how important it is to study the biography of a writer in the context of interpreting his/her work, both prose and – or perhaps above all – poetry. The paper presents selected examples of various archives used to explore the writer’s least-known period of life – her childhood and youth, as well as the history of the Toporski family, also important to her.