Records of Ignacy Schwarzbart Akta Ignacego Szwarzbarta (Sygn. 543)

Archiwum Akt Nowych 

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. 

Records of Ignacy Schwarzbart Akta Ignacego Szwarzbarta (Sygn. 543) 

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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. 

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych 

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.