Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Polish Embassy in Paris Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Paryżu (Sygn. 463)

Reports, studies, articles, correspondence and other materials related to the condition of national minorities in Poland and other countries in Europe, including Germans, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians and Polish Jews. Included are materials about Jewish matters: Jewish affaires in Poland and other countries, attitudes of the Jewish population to the Polish-Soviet war, Zionist organizations, the issue of pogroms of Jews in Poland, general position of the Jewish population in Poland, 1919-1920; the Universal Jewish Congresses in Gdańsk and Karlsbad, Jewish Memorandum to the Council of Ambassadors on Eastern Malopolska, Jewish trade organizations in Russia, 1923-1924; terror against Jews, demonstrations of Jewish students in Nancy, France, relations of the Polish Consulate in Strasbourg with the local Jewish colony, 1932-1933; situation in France of Jewish refugees from Germany (Polish citizens), antisemitic organization in France, Polish-Jewish cooperation in Paris, talks of the Polish Ambassador in Washington, 1934, 1937. Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych In the final phase of World War I, the Polish interests of the French government were represented by the representative of the Polish National Committee, the official diplomatic mission. The Polish Envoy was established in 1919 on the basis of the former agencies of the Committee. In 1924 the institution was elevated to the rank of the Polish Embassy. During World War II, following the defeat of France and its subsequent occupation by German forces, the embassy was evacuated in the autumn of 1940, and there was an exchange of diplomatic representatives between the Polish government in exile and the Free France Committee in July 1943. The French National Liberation Committee was established in Algiers, where the Polish Embassy (since 1944 - Embassy of the Republic of Poland) was established. After the liberation of Paris from the German occupation, the institution was transferred to the French capital.