Prefettura di Mantova

Mantua Prefecture

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Confisca beni ebraici
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- 2890
- English
- 1944-1946
- around 400 pages
- Updated 5 years ago
“Elenco dei documenti concernenti confische beni ebraici per le quali non risultano essere intervenuti i decreti di revoca”, that is a list of all the seizure of Jewish belongings for which no decree of un-seizure had intervened. There are 150 names of people or corporate bodies who, at the date of January 1st, 1946, had not yet received their properties back. Every person or corporate bodies has a personal file containing the original documents of the sequestration decree with the indication all the belongings seized, real estate or personal property, in the period going through May, 23rd,...
Dissequestro beni ebraici
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- 2891
- English
- 1944-1950
- Around 400 pages
- Updated 5 years ago
“Decreti di revoca di confisca dei beni ebraici”, that is decrees of un-seizure of Jewish belongings, made by a specific bureau (Ufficio stralcio amministrazione beni israeliti) of the Agricultural Bank of Mantua, in order to give them back to the legitimate owners. There are also copies of the original decrees of seizure of Jewish belongings.
Folder n° 136 (1955), file n° 29 (Miscellanea), 1 (Rilascio certificazione cittadinanza)
1. Prefettura di Mantova
2. Prefettura di Mantova. Ufficio di Gabinetto
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- 136, 29.1
- English
- 1954-1955
- 9 pages
- Updated 5 years ago
Bianca Massarani was a Jewish woman born in Mantua on December 12th, 1891. Her father was Emanuele and her mother Delfina Gugenheim. In 1945 two properties owned by her were confiscated by Ente Gestione e liquidazione immobiliare beni ebraici (Management and Liquidation Office of Jewish Real Estate Properties or “Egeli”; see this fonds in this portal, child items n° 1 and n° 2 - busta n° 1, n° 63; busta n° 5, n° 567). She had lost Italian citizenship and in 1954 she unsuccessfully tried to recover it, sponsored by two priests (don Giovanni Guernelli and monsignor Giulio Ghidoni).
Folder n° 15, file n° 18 (Razza ebraica. Norme)
1. Prefettura di Mantova
2. Prefettura di Mantova. Ufficio di Gabinetto
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- 15, 18
- English
- 1939-1944
- 72 pages
- Updated 5 years ago
In this file there are documents related to different issues, of which I will offer a brief description, not respecting the chronological order, but rather the way they are kept in the folder. On January 17th, 1944, the head of the province of Mantua, Alessandro Bocchio, requested the local authorities (“podestà” and “commissari prefettizi”) a full list of the houses owned by Jews (except the “mixed ones”), with the names of the owner and those actually living inside the houses or “occupying” them at the moment. On January 14th, 1944, Alessandro Bocchio sent the Germanic Military Command in...
Folder n° 15, file n° 19 (Razza ebraica. Accertamenti razza)
1. Prefettura di Mantova
2. Prefettura di Mantova. Ufficio di Gabinetto
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- 15, 19
- English
- 1940-1944
- 78 pages
- Updated 5 years ago
This file contains documents issued by different authorities (Mantua “questura” and “prefettura”, municipal ones, “Demorazza”, and Head of the province in the period of the Salò Republic) in order to make “racial controls” and to verify one’s “aryanity”, especially in cases of mixed marriages, baptisms, foreign spouse or Jewish grandparents, like for example: Camillo and Adele Sullam, brother and sister, whose mother was “arian” and whose father was Jewish; Renato and Alberto, sons of Cornelio Levi, wanted to change their family names; Wanda Jarè, Zaira Masotti and Michielotto Ena were all ...
Folder n° 15, file n° 21 (Razza ebraica. Domestiche e portinai. Certificati)
1. Prefettura di Mantova
2. Prefettura di Mantova. Ufficio di Gabinetto
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- 15, 21
- English
- The file is empty
- Updated 5 years ago
It was meant to contain documents related to "Jewish Race. Servants and Doorkeepers. Certificates"
Folder n° 189, file n° 4.1 (Fascicoli ed informazioni di carattere razziale)
1. Prefettura di Mantova
2. Prefettura di Mantova. Ufficio di Gabinetto
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- 189, 4.1
- English
- 1960
- 6 pages
- Updated 5 years ago
On September 8th, 1960, the Italian Home Secretary (more specific, in Italian: Ministero dell’Interno, Direzione generale della pubblica sicurezza, divisione Affari riservati, sezione terza) issued a letter with formal recommendation for all the police authorities not to use the expression “of Jewish race” or “formerly known as of Jewish race” when referring to people of Jewish origin in official documents, making use of their racial files only to give them the benefits they deserved because of the persecution they suffered (according to the Italian law n° 96, issued in March 10th, 1955). T...
Folder n° 220, file n° 1 (Coen Matilde. Dichiarazione di perseguitata razziale)
1. Prefettura di Mantova
2. Prefettura di Mantova. Ufficio di Gabinetto
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- 220, 29.1
- English
- 1961
- 5 pages
- Updated 5 years ago
Matilde Coen, born in Mantua, Italy, on November 12th, 1916, was a Jewish teacher who asked for an official certificate as racial persecuted in 1961. To escape racial persecution, in March 1944 she went to Switzerland, from where she came back to Italy in May, 1945.
Folder n° 220, file n° 29.2 (Sig. Coen Clara, domanda di certificato di perseguitata; Levi Clara in Coen. Dichiarazione di perseguitata razziale)
1. Prefettura di Mantova
2. Prefettura di Mantova. Ufficio di Gabinetto
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- 220, 29.2
- English
- 1960-1961
- 16 pages
- Updated 5 years ago
Clara Levi, born in Modena, Italy, on August 27th, 1921, married to Roberto Coen, was a Jewish teacher in Mantua who asked for an official certificate as racial persecuted in 1960. In 1943 or 1944 she went to Switzerland to escape fascist and nazi persecution; in 1944 she gave birth to a baby in Mendrisio, Switzerland.
Folder n° 288, file n° 23.3 (Duranti Anita. Certificato perseguitata razziale)
1. Prefettura di Mantova
2. Prefettura di Mantova. Ufficio di Gabinetto
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- 288, 23.3
- English
- 1968
- 11 pages
- Updated 5 years ago
Anita Duranti, married Bassani, was a Jewish woman born in Ancona, Italy, on July 22nd, 1908. She had been working as a public employee in Rome since 1936, but, because of racial laws, she lost her job in 1941. To escape racial persecution, in 1943 she took refuge in the monastery of the Luxembourgian nuns in Rome. In 1968 she asked for an official certificate as racial persecuted in Mantua, as she had become a member of the local Jewish community.
Folder n° 77, file n° 11.1.2
1. Prefettura di Mantova
2. Prefettura di Mantova. Ufficio di Gabinetto
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- 77, 11.1.2
- English
- 1952
- 20 pages
- Updated 5 years ago
In July 1952 the Mantua Prefecture was requested by the Italian "Ministero dell'Interno" (Home Secretary) to make an inquiry about the exact number of people who died into concentration camps in Germany.It emerged that 51 Mantuan Jewish people had been deported: 38 of them to “Alta Slesia” (Upper Silesia), 2 to the camp in Fossoli (Italy), 4 had been captured in Milan trying to escape to Switzerland and then put in San Vittore jail in Milan, 1 was captured as he was trying to leave Italy and then interned in the camp in Fossoli, 2 were taken in Quingentole (Mantua) and 4 in Milan, later on ...
Prefettura di Mantova
- Mantua Prefecture
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- pref.mant.
- English
- 1866-1980
- 6606 folders and registers
- Updated 5 years ago
The fonds contains documents of the Mantua Prefecture, deposited in the Mantua State Archive in different moments. It also keeps documents from other corporate bodies, such as "Imperial regia delegazione provinciale", "Congregazione municipale" and "Regio commissariato".

2 child items
Prefettura di Mantova. Archivio Generale
1. Prefettura di Mantova
- Mantua Prefecture. General Archive
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- pref.mant.arch.gen.
- English
- 1866-1971
- 6168 folders and registers
- Updated 5 years ago
1 child item
Prefettura di Mantova. Carteggio (1866-1951)
1. Prefettura di Mantova
2. Prefettura di Mantova. Archivio Generale
- Prefettura di Mantova (1866-1951)
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- pref.mant.cart.
- English
- 1944-1951
- 2970 folders
- Updated 5 years ago
In this subfonds, only two folders (n° 2890 and 2891) are related to the Holocaust period, but they are extremely important and actually they should be kept in another fonds of the Mantua State Archive, that is EGELI (see it), as they hold documents of the “dissequestro” (un-seizure) of the Jewish belongings after World War II. In these two folders there is a list, kept in alphabetical order, of all the seizure of Jewish belongings for which no decree of un-seizure had intervened (that is, Jewish family who had not yet received their properties back); every family name’s file contains the s...

2 child items
Prefettura di Mantova. Ufficio di Gabinetto
1. Prefettura di Mantova
- Mantua Prefecture. Cabinet's Office
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- pref.mant.uff.gab.
- English
- 1943-1961
- 300 folders
- Updated 5 years ago
In folder n° 15 there are several files named “Razza ebraica” (Jewish race), concerning Mantua and its province, with: a list of the houses owned by Jews, with the names of the people living inside them or “occupying” them; a list of the Jews hidden or irrecoverable in November 26th, 1943; a request by the Militärkommandant in Brescia to obtain quickly a full list with the names of the Jews; a copy of the newspaper “Welt-Dienst”, in Italian, with anti-Jewish propaganda (January 1944); documents of the “Ispettorato Generale per la Razza” (Racial General Inspectorship); requests to Mantua Pre...

10 child items
Prefettura di Mantova. Ufficio di Gabinetto. Fondo riservato
1. Prefettura di Mantova
2. Prefettura di Mantova. Ufficio di Gabinetto
- Mantua Prefecture. Archive of the Cabinet's Office. Confidential fonds
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- pref.mant.uff.gab.riserv.
- English
- 1961
- 10 folders
- Updated 5 years ago
This fonds contains acts of the Mantua Prefecture that were considered “confidential”, due to their “delicacy”. In the folder of the year 1961 there are three copies of the circular letter n° 30, issued by “Ministero dell’Interno” (the Home Secretary of the Italian Government) in June 1961, asking for the deposit into the Italian State Archives of all the documents related to the racial persecution of the “citizens of Jewish origin”, that were still kept by the local “Questura” (Police-headquarters) or “Prefettura” (Prefecture). Documents requested are not only personal files, but also gene...

Prefettura di Mantova

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