Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Honorary Consulate in Zürich Konsulat Honorowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Zürichu (Sygn.496)

Identifier
irn558182
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2017.73.1
  • RG-15.526
Dates
1 Jan 1919 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

256 digital images, PDF

Creator(s)

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.496. 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, newspaper clippings, instructions and regulations related to the condition of national minorities, mainly Jews, in Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France and other countries in Europe. Included are materials about matters of visa regulations, Jewish communists, anti-fascist militia, testimony of the refugees, participation of the Polish citizen Lejz Horowitz in the work of the XX Zionist Congress in Zurich, commercial information about Polish Jews in Switzerland, Zionist congresses in Zürich, creation of the Polish-Swiss Export Association and their fraudulent commercial activities, information on Zionist activities and delegates from Poland.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in four series: 1. Visa regulations, 1938; 2. Correspondence, 1933-1942, 1944: Arrests of Polish citizens in Switzerland; 3. Commercial information about the Jews from Poland in Switzerland, 1919-1934; 4. Minorities in Poland and related issues outside of Poland, 1921, 1927-1937. Zionist Congresses in Zürich, 1929, 1937.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.