Selected records of the Ministry of Information and Propaganda in Warsaw Ministerstwo Informacji i Propagandy w Warszawie (Sygn.168)
Extent and Medium
2,324 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Poland. Ministerstwo Informacji i Propagandy
Biographical History
The Ministry of Information and Propaganda was created in 1944, Warsaw, Poland. The Ministry was working on public information and mass propaganda, information policy in Poland and abroad. In particular, these were the subjects of the daily press, periodical and occasional publications, press agencies, broadcasting, film and cinematography, and socio-civic education.
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, Poland, Sygn. 168. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in December 2017. Note: This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
Scope and Content
Reports on the political situation in individual voivodships, materials about the Majdanek Museum of 1945, war compensation cases, German inscriptions from the occupation period, Soviet soldiers' graves in Poland, memoirs and elaborations on concentration camps, literary works on war, posters and announcements from 1945 on ceremonies for the victims of war, reports and correspondence on the Red Army in Poland.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in seven series: 1. Reports on the Kielce and Lublin Voivodship, 1946-1947; 2. Cabinet of the Minister. The President's Department: Correspondence and registers relating to War reparation, confiscation of goods by Germans, and graves of Russian soldiers; 3. Archives: Copies of underground newspapers; 4. Department of Propaganda: Registers, reports, testimonies, clippings related to German crimes; 5. Publication Department: Literary work (published and unpublished), war memoirs; 6. Posters and announcements: Materials related to celebrations in honor of war victims; 7. Political Bureau: Correspondence, reports and telegrams from individual voivodships, 1945-1946.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Subjects
- Poland--History--German occupation, 1939-1945.
- Poland
- World War 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.
- Propaganda--Poland--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939 -1945--Confiscations and contributions--Poland.
- Executive departments.
Genre
- Posters.
- Telegrams.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Correspondence.
- Reports.
- Document