Selected records of the Embassy of the Polish Republic in Berlin Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Berlinie (Sygn. 474)
Extent and Medium
56,638 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Poland. Ambasada (Germany)
Biographical History
The diplomatic relations between Poland and Germany were established in 1918. Poland opened its embassy in Berlin in 1919, which since 1921 was located at the Kurfürstenstraße 136 in the district of Berlin-Schöneberg (1921-1939), and the consulate next to the 137th street in Motlstraße (now Else-Lasker- Schüler-Straße). In 1934, the rank of representation to the embassy was raised. After the outbreak of World War II the building was occupied by the Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Third Reich. In 1938 Poland had 15 consulates in Germany.
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.
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.474. 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, and accretion in Dec. 2017. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
Scope and Content
Reports, statistics, correspondence, and press clippings issued by Polish diplomatic agencies operating on German territory since 1933, relating to the condition, persecution and emigration of Jews, incidents of arrests and beating of Polish Jews on German territory, interventions by the Polish Embassy and Polish diplomatic agencies on Jewish matters, and legal assistance for Polish emigrants in Germany. Also includes texts of speeches by Hitler, 1935, and German propaganda. Also included are records relating to the organization and activity of the Federation of Polish Jews in Germany, information and propaganda materials of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and records concerning the problems related to the forced expulsion of Polish Jews from the territory of the Third Reich.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in eight series: 1. Reports of Polish diplomatic missions in Germany: internal situation, 1933-1938; 2. Reports of Polish institutions, correspondence, reports, press clippings: Germany-political relations, 1935-1939; 3. Correspondence, notes: interventions of Polish institutions in Germany on Jews, Polish citizens, 1933-1938 (Individual files organized in alphabetical order by last name); 4. Correspondence, 1920-1939 (organized in alphabetical order by last name); 5. Cases of civil status of Polish and foreign citizens, legal protection, 1920-1938; 6. Reports of Polish diplomatic agencies in Germany, correspondence, statements, notes: Expulsion of Polish citizens by the German authorities (individual files organized in alphabetical order by last name); 7. Statistics of Polish consulates in Germany and Austria: arrests of Polish citizens by the German authorities, 1938-1939; 8. Information and propaganda materials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, newsletters, publishing house of the National Polish Union in Brooklyn, USA "Brief Outline of the Jewish Problem in Poland," 1938-1939.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
People
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
Corporate Bodies
- Poland. Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych
Subjects
- Poland
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe--History.
- Germany--Foreign relations--1933-1945.
- Diplomatic and consular service, Polish--Germany.
- Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--1933-1945.
- Poland--Foreign relations--1918-1945--Sources.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany--History--20th century.
- Germany
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany--History--20th century.
- Emigration & immigration--Germany--20th century.
- Diplomatic and consular service
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Reports.
- Statistics.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Document
- Speeches, addresses, etc.