Selected records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych w Warszawie (Sygn. 322)

Identifier
irn607481
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2015.154.1
  • RG-15.372
Dates
1 Jan 1918 - 31 Dec 1939
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

64,799 digital images, PDF

Creator(s)

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, Poland, Sygn. 322. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2015.

Scope and Content

Contains selected records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw. The materials cover a variety of topics related to political and economic situation in Europe and the world in the years preceding the outbreak of World War II: the League of Nations; Polish policy towards Jewish populations and general issues of national minorities; the ban on ritual slaughter in Poland in 1936; Polish clergy and antisemitism; the politics of the Vatican towards Germany; aid for refugees from Germany; the condition of minorities in Poland, Germany and other countries; Polish Jews in Germany; the emigration of Jews to Palestine; the political and economic situation in Palestine; Jews in Birobidzhan (USSR); Jewish organizations abroad; meetings of the Polish Ambassador in Washington with American politicians; Communists in Poland and abroad; reports of the Polish Consulate in Jerusalem; magazines and periodicals in Germany, and publishing in Poland; emigration issues: possibility of emigration of Jews to African countries (colonization of Madagascar); the Jewish Colonization Committee in Warsaw; activities of a new Zionist organizations; registration of Jewish property in Germany and Austria; the condition of Jews in Italy; deportation of Polish Jews from Germany, 1938; and other topics.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in twelve series: 1. The Cabinet of the Minister; 2. Department of International Organizations. Division of the League of Nations (Poselstwo); 3. Division of Minorities Affairs; 4. Naval Division; 5. Division of Religious Denominations; 6. Division of Congress; 7. Western Division; 8. Eastern Division; 9. The Press Division; 10. Department of Consular Affairs; 11. Department of Social Welfare; 12. Department of Treaties.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

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Genre

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.