League of Nations archives

The League of Nations archives' historical significance is recognized by UNESCO, with its inscription on the Memory of the World Register in 2009.

At the time, these were not considered to be an archive in the true sense of the term, and access was extremely limited.

[4] In 1965, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace proposed to finance a project to open League materials to researchers.

The Nansen Fonds (aka "Refugees mixed archive group") is the only section considered to be a hybrid of these two segments.

[4] The Registry was the centralized function of the Secretariat that indexed and processed the majority of the records of the League of Nations according to official rules.

Examples include the Saar Basin Governing Commission and the archives of the League's Berlin Office.

[7] Its fundamental aim is to modernize access to the archives for researchers, education institutions, and the general public.

[2] The project was completed in October 2022 and the entire archive of the League is now publicly available through a dedicated online platform.

A researcher's set up of League of Nations archives in the John D. Rockefeller Jr. League of Nations and United Nations Archives Reading Room in Geneva.
The Registry was responsible for the registration and processing of archives at League of Nations Headquarters. Pictured is the Palais Wilson , which served as Headquarters from 1920–1936.
The League of Nations archives' Nansen Fonds is a hybrid of the Secretariat archive group and the External Fonds. It is named for Fridtjof Nansen , who as the High Commissioner for Refugees of the League of Nations invented the Nansen Passport (pictured). [ 6 ]