Foreign Office: General Correspondence, FO 371

Identifier
irn509227
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.104
  • RG-59.006M
Dates
1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1949
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn509227

Extent and Medium

22,973 digital images, TIFF

97 microfilm reels, 35 mm

2 DVD-ROM, 4 3/4 in.

Archival History

National Archives (Great Britain)

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Public Record Office (National Archives of United Kingdom). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Program Division in July 2001. Reels 49 through 98 were later added to the collection on 29 Aug. 2002, additional accretion arrived in 2010 and 2011 (Ca. 25,000 digital images).

Scope and Content

Contains correspondence relating to persecution and atrocities against Jews; refugees from Germany and Austria; disturbances in Palestine; the formation of a Jewish fighting force; immigration issues; German war criminals, and files on the conditions for Jews in occupied Europe including, Germany, Slovakia, Italy, Hungary, Iraq, and Poland.

System of Arrangement

Organization is thematic. Selected records of British Public Record Office fond FO 371

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: National Archives (Great Britain)

Corporate Bodies

  • Great Britain. Foreign Office

Subjects

  • Madagascar--Emigration and immigration.
  • Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
  • Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
  • Austria--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
  • Refugees, Jewish--Europe.
  • Palestine--Politics and government--1917-1948.
  • Refugees, Jewish--Palestine.
  • Refugees, Jewish--Germany.
  • Great Britain--Colonies--Asia.
  • Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Genre

  • Document
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.

Copies

  • The National Archives

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from National Archives (Great Britain)