Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Consulate in Nice Konsulat Honorowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Nicei (Sygn. 508)

In November 1919, the President of the Council of Ministers I.J. Paderewski appointed a delegate to the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland in Nice. On February 27, 1924, the Polish Consulate in Nice began its activities. The Consulate in Nice hold the collection of passport and visa materials for the consulate, social welfare, propaganda, press affairs, military and visas of certificates of origin. After the outbreak of World War II, the Consulate's activities focused on the care of refugees from Poland. After the liquidation of Polish consular offices in the unregistered zone in September 1940, the Consulate was acting under the name of the Polish Office in Nice, and since December 1941 the Office of the Administration of Poles in Nice, which operated until June 1944.

Archiwum Akt Nowych

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.508. 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.