Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Embassy in London Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (Sygn.503)

Identifier
irn558186
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2017.77.1
  • RG-15.530
Dates
1 Jan 1919 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

8,505 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.503. 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, publications, press releases, correspondence, press clippings notes related to national minorities in European countries and Russia, emigration polices, Jewish affairs and political parties before WWII, international preparation of postwar political and economic reconstruction of Europe and Poland, UNRRA planning for mission in Poland, investigation of Nazi crimes, compensation for victims of German atrocities, activities of Jewish socio-political organizations and emigration to Palestine.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in fourteen series: 1. National minorities in Lithuania, Germany, USSR, 2. Emigration policy and trends, 1920-1938; 3. Records of the Jewish movement in Europe and Poland, Jewish political parties in Poland, 1919-1922; 4. Jewish school and publishing houses, 1923-1936; 5. Social assistance for Poland and Polish refugees, 1939-1945; 6. Meetings and conferences of the Inter-American Committee, 1942-1945; 7. Dumbarton Oaks Conferences, 1944-1945; 8. Preparation of UNRRA mission in Poland, 1942-1944; 9. Preparation of postwar reconstruction plans for Europe and Poland, 1940-1943; 10. Postwar political and economic plans for reconstruction of Poland, 1945; 11. Activities of the Government of the Republic of Poland in London: investigation of Nazi crimes in Poland and informing the Allies about the camps in Majdanek and Auschwitz; 12. Compensation for victims of Nazi persecution and return of looted property, 1945; 13. Reviews of German and Polish, Jewish press, 1940-1944; 14. Jewish minority in Poland and outside Poland. Rescue of Jews in Poland. Activities of Jewish socio-political organizations in the West. Emigration to Palestine, 1942-1945.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

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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.