Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Alternate Title
- Selected records of the Embassy of the Polish Republic in Berlin
- Date
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inclusive:
1920-1939
- Credit Line
- 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.
- Collection Creator
- Poland. Ambasada (Germany)
- Biography
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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.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Correspondence. Reports. Speeches, addresses, etc. Statistics.
- Extent
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56,638 digital images : PDF ; 25.1 GB .
- 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.
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- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Reproduction of more than 100 pages of copies of documents for researchers or other institutions requires a written permission of the General Director of the State Archives of the Republic of Poland. Publication of more than 10 complete documents in an individual work requires the written authorization of the General Director. The Museum may not publish any archival material obtained from the General Director, including specific archives under his control, on the Internet, the World Wide Web, or any other publicly accessible on-line network without the written permission of the General Director. Citation of the materials in any publication must refer to the Museum and the Polish State Archives and must include the name of the archival group and catalogue number of the originals.
- Copyright Holder
- Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Diplomatic and consular service, Polish--Germany. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany--History--20th century. Jews--Persecutions--Germany--History--20th century. Emigration & immigration--Germany--20th century. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe--History. Diplomatic and consular service
- Geographic Name
- Poland--Foreign relations--1918-1945--Sources. Germany--Foreign relations--1933-1945. Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--1933-1945. Poland Germany
- Personal Name
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
- Corporate Name
- Poland. Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Archiwum Akt Nowych
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- 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. - Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 12:45:39
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