Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Consulate in Nice Konsulat Honorowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Nicei (Sygn. 508)
Extent and Medium
5 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Poland. Konsulat Honorowy (Nice, France)
Biographical History
In November 1919, the President of the Council of Ministers I.J. Paderewski appointed a delegate to the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland in Nice. On February 27, 1924, the Polish Consulate in Nice began its activities. The Consulate in Nice hold the collection of passport and visa materials for the consulate, social welfare, propaganda, press affairs, military and visas of certificates of origin. After the outbreak of World War II, the Consulate's activities focused on the care of refugees from Poland. After the liquidation of Polish consular offices in the unregistered zone in September 1940, the Consulate was acting under the name of the Polish Office in Nice, and since December 1941 the Office of the Administration of Poles in Nice, which operated until June 1944.
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 w Warszawie, Poland, Sygn.508. 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.
Scope and Content
Diplomatic correspondence and the invitations of the Société Israélite to the Polish Council in Nicei to honor work of Jewish poet and novelist, Sholem Asch. In 1932 he was awarded by the Polish Republic's Polonia Restituta decoration.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in one series: 1. Correspondence, 1931-1933: Letters and invitations to ceremonies, notices about awarding Polish decorations to Jewish author, Sholem Asch (File 290).
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
People
- Asch, Sholem, 1880-1957.
Subjects
- Jewish authors--20th century--Poland.
- Nice (France)
- Poland
- Emigration & immigration--Europe--20th century.
- Diplomatic and consular service, Polish--France.
- Diplomatic and consular service
- Nice (France)--Ethnic relations.
- Refugees--Europe--History--20th century.
- Poland--Foreign relation--France.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Document
- Invitations.