Polish Press Agency "Polpress" Polska Agencja Prasowa "Polpress" (Sygn.1926)

Identifier
irn593174
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2017.506.1
  • RG-15.566
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • English
  • French
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

4,545 digital images, PDF

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Polska Agencja Prasowa, PAP [Polish Press Agency] is Poland's national news agency, producing and distributing political, economic, social, and cultural news as well as events information. Polska Agencja Prasowa S.A. was incorporated in 1918 as the Polish Telegraphic Agency (PTA). In 1944 following the Soviet entry into German-occupied Poland, the company was taken over by the Polish communists and set up under its current name as the local alternative to the still functioning Polish Telegraphic Agency loyal to the Polish government in exile from 1939 in Paris and London. During the reign of communism in Poland PAP was a government institution and the official communist mouthpiece. In 1990 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of communism in Europe, the company was reformed and in 1991 the original PTA was finally merged into PAP to form the present day Agency. [See: Wikipedia]

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. 1926. 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

Selected records of the Polska Agencja Prasowa "Polpress", a government press agency set up in Moscow on March 10, 1944, by the communist Polish Patriots Union. Included in the collection are regulations, orders, circulars, registers of service messages, newsletters in Polish and other languages: e.g. Biuletyn Wewnętrzny XI, 1944, Biuletyn Młodzieżowy, Vi-VII, 1945, Centralny Serwis Artykułowy nr 11(VII0, 1945, Biuletyn Polski (Oddział Moskiewski), 1944-1945, Biuletyn: English Release (Yew York), 1944-1945; Biuletyn Felietonowy, 1945, Biuletyn Krajowy i Zagraniczny, 1945, Polish Facts and Figures, 1944-1945, and other.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in two series: 1. Regulations and circulars; 2. Bulletins and publications.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

Genre

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