Overview
- Description
- Reports on the political situation in individual voivodships, materials about the Majdanek Museum of 1945, war compensation cases, German inscriptions from the occupation period, Soviet soldiers' graves in Poland, memoirs and elaborations on concentration camps, literary works on war, posters and announcements from 1945 on ceremonies for the victims of war, reports and correspondence on the Red Army in Poland.
- Alternate Title
- Selected records of the Ministry of Information and Propaganda in Warsaw
- Date
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inclusive:
1945-1947
- 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. Ministerstwo Informacji i Propagandy
- Biography
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The Ministry of Information and Propaganda was created in 1944, Warsaw, Poland. The Ministry was working on public information and mass propaganda, information policy in Poland and abroad. In particular, these were the subjects of the daily press, periodical and occasional publications, press agencies, broadcasting, film and cinematography, and socio-civic education.
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Extent
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2,324 digital images : PDF ; 0.99 GB .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in seven series: 1. Reports on the Kielce and Lublin Voivodship, 1946-1947; 2. Cabinet of the Minister. The President's Department: Correspondence and registers relating to War reparation, confiscation of goods by Germans, and graves of Russian soldiers; 3. Archives: Copies of underground newspapers; 4. Department of Propaganda: Registers, reports, testimonies, clippings related to German crimes; 5. Publication Department: Literary work (published and unpublished), war memoirs; 6. Posters and announcements: Materials related to celebrations in honor of war victims; 7. Political Bureau: Correspondence, reports and telegrams from individual voivodships, 1945-1946.
Rights & Restrictions
- 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
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, Poland, Sygn. 168. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in December 2017.
Note: This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
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- 2023-06-26 12:40:31
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