Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate General in London Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (Sygn.504)
Extent and Medium
5 digital files, PDF
Creator(s)
- Poland. Konsulat Generalny (London, England)
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.504. 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
Instructions, circulars, correspondence, reports, forms related to emigration policy, organization of transporting emigrants by the shipping companies to Palestine and US, emigration of Polish refugees to Canada and Jamaica, migration of Polish expatriates by Great Britain, migration of the English population, and Jewish minorities in Poland. Includes a letter requesting a return of the Baron Günzburg's book collection to Jewish representatives in Vilnius.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in four series: 1. Emigration policy: The Immigration Act and Regulations, 1919-1944; 2. Emigration policy: „Biuletyn Urzędu Emigracyjnego” (Emigration Office Bulletin"), (1921), 1924-1926, (1937); 3. Emigration reports and correspondence (Great Britain), 1921-1930; 4.The request of the Jewish community to Polish Ministry of External Affairs regarding a return of Baron Günzburg's book collection, 1920.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
People
- Günzburg, David, Baron, 1857-1910.
Corporate Bodies
- Rzeczpospolita Polska (Government-in-exile)
- Poland. Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych
Subjects
- Poland--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- Refugees--Europe--History--20th century.
- Diplomatic and consular service
- Diplomatic and consular service, Polish--Great Britain.
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe.
- Canada.
- Shipping companies (Marine transportation)--Poland--History--20th century.
- Poland--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Europe--History--20th century.
- Poland
- World War 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.
- Europe--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Emigration & immigration--Europe--20th century.
- Executive departments.
- London (England)
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Document
- Reports.
- Publications.
- Circulars.
- Bulletins.
- Correspondence.