Records of Ignacy Schwarzbart Akta Ignacego Szwarzbarta (Sygn. 543)
Extent and Medium
846 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Ignacy Schwarzbart
Biographical History
Ignacy Schwarzbart (1888–1961) was a prominent Polish Zionist, and one of two Jewish representatives on the Polish National Council of the Polish Government-in-Exile during the Second World War, along with Szmul Zygielbojm. Schwarzbart and Zygielbojm played key roles in highlighting reports of Nazi atrocities against Jews in occupied Poland. In 1942 Schwarzbart held a press conference in London alleging that 1 million Jewish people had already been killed. The figures were reported in the media but were treated sceptically by both the British and by some other Polish politicians.
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. 543. 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
The collection contains correspondence, notes, press clippings, articles, regulations, speeches, reports, and correspondence. Materials relate to the following subjects: Aid rendered by Schwarzbart to the Jewish emigrants and war refugees from Poland; Jewish emigration, editing of the Jewish newspaper “The Future” in France in 1940 and newspapers in other countries; and Schwartzbart’s activity in the National Council of the Republic of Poland in France during 1939-1940.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in three series: 1. International contacts for helping Jewish people in Great Britain. Palestine, Switzerland, US, Belgium, Holland, Italy, and Poland, 1937-1940; 2. Correspondence, requests for visas, documents of Jewish affairs abroad; 3. Various newspapers, clippings, brochures and photographs related to Jewish matters.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
People
- Schwarzbart, Isaac I.
Corporate Bodies
- World Jewish Congress
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
- Rzeczpospolita Polska (Government-in-exile)
- Board of Deputies of British Jews
- World Zionist Organization
- Hias-Ica Emigration Association
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Governments in exile.
- England--Emigration and immigration--20th century.
- Poland
- France--Emigration and immigration--20th century.
- Belgium--Emigration and immigration--20th century.
- Zionists.
- Emigration and immigration--Europe--History--20th century.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--20th century.
- Jews--Politics and government--20th century.
- Netherlands--Emigration and immigration--20th century.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration--20th century.
- Switzerland--Emigration and immigration--20th century.
- Jewish refugees--Europe--History--20th century--Registers.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Zionism--Poland--History--20th century.
Genre
- Registers.
- Photographs.
- Reports.
- Document
- Correspondence.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archiwum Akt Nowych