Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate in Buffalo Konsulat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Buffalo (Sygn.491)
Extent and Medium
77 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Poland. Konsulat (Buffalo, NY)
Biographical History
The Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Buffalo was a Polish consular office operating in the interwar period in Buffalo. The office was established in Buffalo in 1920 in the rank of Vice-Consul of the Republic of Poland, the office was subsequently elevated to the Consulate, and was acted until 1932.
Archival History
Archiwum Akt Nowych
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Akt Nowych w Warszawie, Poland, Sygn.491. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in March 2017. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
Scope and Content
Reports, correspondence, circulars and statistics relating to immigration of Poles and to Polish national minorities, mainly immigration of Jews to the United States.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in four series: 1. Reports on Polish immigration to the United States, 1927, 1928 [File 57]; 2. Reports and correspondence relating to social life and organizational structure of local emigration, 1923-1924, 1930 [File 58]; 3. Statistics of emigration from Poland, and emigration in Buffalo, 1923, 1929 [File 63]; 4. Statements of the Polish Embassy in Washington, consulate reports, correspondence, press releases: Minorities in Poland and related issues abroad, Jews in the United States, 1921, 1926, 1928 [File 194].
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Corporate Bodies
- Poland. Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych
Subjects
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States--History--20th century.
- Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States--History--20th century.
- Diplomatic and consular service, Polish--United States.
- Poland
- Polish people--Foreign countries--Politics and government--20th century.
- Poland--Relations--United States.
- United States--Politics and government--History--20th century.
- Diplomatic and consular service
- Polish people--United States--History--20th century.
- United States
- Buffalo (N.Y.)
- Poland--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Emigration and immigration law--United States--History--20th century.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--History--20th century.
Genre
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Reports.
- Document
- Statistics.
- Correspondence.