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Fonds · 1919-1947

The fonds consists of the following sub-fonds, "Registry files" (1920-1947), "Commission files" (1919-1947), and "Section files" (1924-1941). It includes therefore, files produced by the Registry, Records and Mailing Section of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, files of the external offices of the High Commissioner for Refugees, later Nansen Office for Refugees (including those produced by the Nansen Office itself), files of other external bodies (International Labour Organisation, Office of the Liquidator of the Nansen Office in Paris, Armenian Orphanage in Aleppo, High Commissioner for German Refugees, High Commissioner for Refugees in London) as well as files of several other external bodies randomly united under "Section files" (files of the Evian intergovernmental conference, of the Delegation in Greece). The Nansen fonds consists of correspondence, administrative, financial, and other textual records; brochures; newspaper clippings; some photographs; documentation of other nature.

League of Nations. High Commissioner of the League of Nations for Refugees. International Labour Organisation. Nansen Office. Armenian Orphanage in Aleppo. High Commissioner for German Refugees. High Commissioner for Refugees in London.
Commission Files

"Commission files" represent the files of the units of the Secretariat which were produced and indexed outside of the Registry, that is those, in the case of Nansen fonds, of external missions, offices, delegations of the High Commissioner for Refugees as well as, for example, of those of the autonomous Nansen Office for Refugees (1930-1938), or of High Commissioner for Refugees in London. Nevertheless, in some cases, Commission files also include some "pure" Registry files as in the series "Nansen Office for Refugees" (1930-1938) and "Liquidator of the Nansen Office in Paris" (1939-1947).

External missions, offices, delegations of the High Commissioner for Refugees. International Labour Organisation. Nansen Office. Office of the Liquidator of the Nansen Office in Paris. Armenian Orphanage in Aleppo. High Commissioner for German Refugees. High Commissioner for Refugees in London
Registry files

The Registry, Records and Mailing Section represented the central processing unit of the Secretariat of the League of Nations which was responsible for registering, placing on file, and indexing of incoming and outgoing documents. For Nansen fonds the Registry classification is important in such a way that, especially for the first period of work of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (1919-1930), this Office did not have a separate processing unit, thus, all documents were processed for it through the Registry. The situation changed in 1930 with the establishment of the Nansen Office for Refugees, which created and processed its own documents (using higher numbers starting with 80 000), while still having used/assembled old Registry files.

The Registry, Records and Mailing Section of the Secretariat of the League of Nations
R1758/48/24274/23788 · File · 1922.10.11
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

Letter from Fridtjof Nansen to the representatives of various Governments, requesting them to urge their Governments to contribute urgently to this fund in view of the gravity of the situation of the Asia Minor refugees.

Section Files

"Section files" represent files of certain Sections of the Secretariat of the League of Nations which were kept in parallel with those of the Registry. Within the Nansen fonds these include one file from the Political Section (1930), files of the Evian intergovernmental conference (1938-39), and archives of the Delegation in Greece (1924-1941).

Sections of the Secretariat of the League of Nations