Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Honorary Consulate in Zürich Konsulat Honorowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Zürichu (Sygn.496)
Extent and Medium
256 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Poland. Konsulat Honorowy (Zürich, Switzerland)
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
- Poland. Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych
- Rzeczpospolita Polska (Government-in-exile)
Subjects
- Zürich (Switzerland)
- Diplomatic and consular service
- Poland
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe--History.
- Polish people--Legal status, laws, etc.--Europe--History--20th century.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Europe--History--20th century.
- Emigration & immigration--Europe--20th century.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Diplomatic and consular service, Polish--Switzerland.
- Refugees--Government policy--Switzerland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--History--20th century.
- Poland--Foreign relations--Switzerland.
- Jewish communists--Europe--History--20th century.
Genre
- Document
- Testimonies.
- Reports.
- Correspondence.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)