In 2018 it is 100 years since the end of the First World War. In 1919–1939 there were several dozen veterans’ organizations in Poland, including those comprising insurgents from 1863, former military units and members of independence organizations before 1914, organizations of veterans from military units of 1914–1918, organizations of veterans of units of the Polish army from 1918–1920, organizations of war invalids, organizations of former independence activists and political prisoners, organizations of veterans from national minorities, and unions of reservists. These were combined on the advice of Józef Piłsudski into one Federation of Polish Defenders of the Fatherland. After 1989, this was revived.
Among the pro-independence organizations that in post-war years became part of the wartime historiography were those in Krakow. In the years 1918–1939 there were 15 organizations in Krakow that gathered former legionnaires and fighters for freedom and an independent Poland. Among them were also paramilitary women’s organizations.
In addition to the organizations in Poland itself, there were also Polish emigrant organizations. Most of the pro-independence organizations published their own magazines. This article presents a review of independence organizations in the interwar period in Krakow and the Krakow province of that time.