Selected records of the Polish Committee of National Liberation Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (Sygn. 185) : Wybrane materialy

The Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN) was formed on July 21, 1944. The PKWN was established in Moscow and led by Polish communists who had been living there in exile, and it functioned under the political control of Joseph Stalin. The Central Office of Polish Communists and the National Council of the Polish Communist Party were influenced by the Communist Party, but the final decision on its creation, name, status and staffing was made by Stalin. From August 1, 1944, the headquarters of the Polish Committee of the Army was based in Lublin. The PKWN was chaired by Edward Osóbka-Morawski and became the Temporary Government of the Polish Republic on December 31, 1944. PKWN's press office was known as "Rzeczpospolita." The establishment of the PKWN created a political structure that, with only minor modifications, was retained until 1989. The political foundations were the monopoly of the Communist Party in the sphere of power and the subordination of Poland to the Soviet Union.

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. 185. 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.