Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Embassy in London Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (Sygn.503)
Extent and Medium
8,505 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Poland. Ambasada (Great Britain)
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
People
- Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942.
Corporate Bodies
- Rzeczpospolita Polska (Government-in-exile)
- Poland. Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Subjects
- Europe--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Poland
- Refugees--Europe--History--20th century.
- World War 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.
- Poland--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Diplomatic and consular service, Polish--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration.
- Jewish organizations--Europe--History--20th century--Registers.
- Great Britain
- Diplomatic and consular service
- Poland--Foreign relation--Great Britain.
- Emigration & immigration--Europe--20th century.
- Diplomats--Poland--History--20th century.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Europe--History--20th century.
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe.
Genre
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Publications.
- Document
- Reports.
- Correspondence.