Raczyński's Note
23.01.2020
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, learn about the significance of one of the most important efforts of the Polish state to highlight the crimes committed by Nazi Germany on Jews in occupied Poland during the Second World War – Raczyński's Note.
Raczyński's Note, a diplomatic note written by the government of Poland in exile on 10 December 1942 and signed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Raczyński, was the first official report informing the Allies and the West of the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland. It was sent to the 26 governments signed up to the Declaration by United Nations and informed the 17 December United Nations Declaration in which a pledge of severe punishment of the guilty of the Holocaust was made.