Polish Press Agency "Polpress" Polska Agencja Prasowa "Polpress" (Sygn.1926)

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych Polska Agencja Prasowa, PAP [Polish Press Agency] is Poland's national news agency, producing and distributing political, economic, social, and cultural news as well as events information. Polska Agencja Prasowa S.A. was incorporated in 1918 as the Polish Telegraphic Agency (PTA). In 1944 following the Soviet entry into German-occupied Poland, the company was taken over by the Polish communists and set up under its current name as the local alternative to the still functioning Polish Telegraphic Agency loyal to the Polish government in exile from 1939 in Paris and London. During the reign of communism in Poland PAP was a government institution and the official communist mouthpiece. In 1990 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of communism in Europe, the company was reformed and in 1991 the original PTA was finally merged into PAP to form the present day Agency. [See: Wikipedia] Selected records of the Polska Agencja Prasowa "Polpress", a government press agency set up in Moscow on March 10, 1944, by the communist Polish Patriots Union. Included in the collection are regulations, orders, circulars, registers of service messages, newsletters in Polish and other languages: e.g. Biuletyn Wewnętrzny XI, 1944, Biuletyn Młodzieżowy, Vi-VII, 1945, Centralny Serwis Artykułowy nr 11(VII0, 1945, Biuletyn Polski (Oddział Moskiewski), 1944-1945, Biuletyn: English Release (Yew York), 1944-1945; Biuletyn Felietonowy, 1945, Biuletyn Krajowy i Zagraniczny, 1945, Polish Facts and Figures, 1944-1945, and other.