Ισραηλιτική Κοινότητα Θεσσαλονίκης (Γενικά Κοινοτικά Αρχεία)

Jewish Community of Thessaloniki (General Communal Archives)
Israilitiki Koinotita Thessalonikis (Genika Koinotika Archeia)

Address

26, Vasileos Irakleiou
Thessaloniki
54624
Greece

Phone

+30 2310273767

Fax

+30 2310 229063

Email

archives@jct.gr

Web

http://www.jct.gr

History

The Jewish Community of Thessaloniki reorganized the postwar Archives in 2009. The programme of digitization of the Archives (sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Claims Conference) was completed in the summer 2012.

Building(s)

The Archives of the Community are housed in a spacious, comfortable and safe place on 26, Vas. Irakliou Str.

Archival and Other Holdings

The archival holdings contain property and financial assets declarations (1943). The main bulk of the archival material covers the postwar period; the meeting minutes of the Assembly and Council, books of births, marriages and deaths, censuses, judicial decisions, correspondence with local and central Greek governmental authorities, correspondence among Jewish communities and Jewish organizations in Greece and abroad, application for German reparations, lists of Holocaust victims, a part of the Archives of the Jewish Community in Kavala, private collections (Ilan Karmi).

Finding Aids, Guides, and Publication

Electronic catalogues are available for researchers onsite.

Opening Times

The reading room is open from Monday to Friday: 08:00 am to 15:00 pm (only by appointment). The Archives are closed on public and religious holidays.

Conditions of Access

The Archives of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki are open to researchers upon approval of relevant application form.

Research Services

A comfortable space is available for researchers.

Reproduction Services

Photocopies of the archival material may be given by the responsible employees of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki at their own discreation. Photographing the archival material is prohibited. The publication of the archival material without prior consent is prohibited.

Sources

Entry by V. Ritzaleos based on information provided by the director of the Archives Ms. Aliki Arouh.

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Copies

Archives of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Israilitiki Koinotita Thessalonikis
Thessaloniki Jewish Community records

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Israilitiki Koinotita Thessalonikis

Archival Descriptions

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Γερμανικές Αποζημιώσεις
- German Reparations
- Germanikes Apozimioseis
- Ισραηλιτική Κοινότητα Θεσσαλονίκης (Γενικά Κοινοτικά Αρχεία)
- 00030-00067, 00070-00103
- English
- 1947-2003
- 85 boxes, 7 bounded books
- Updated 10 years ago
The archive concerns applications related to pensions' allocation pursuant to the West German Federal Indemnification Law (known as the Bundesentschädigungsgesetz, or BEG), the German Reich and Equivalent Legal Entities (Monetary Compensa-tion) Act (BRüG, of 19 July 1957, Federal Law Gazette I, p. 734) and the Greek Law Decree 4178/1961. Apart from these, part of the archival material refers to newer agreements about pensions' allocation. The archive also contains the community's correspondence in relation with its demands and its members' indemnifications.
Δηλώσεις Περιουσιών προς τις Γερμανικές Αρχές (1943)
- Declaration of Property to the German Authorities (1943)
- Diloseis Periousion pros tis Germanikes Arches (1943)
- Ισραηλιτική Κοινότητα Θεσσαλονίκης (Γενικά Κοινοτικά Αρχεία)
- 001-0025
- English
- 1943
- 25 boxes, 2 linear meters
- Updated 10 years ago
The archive contains 4.200 declarations of mobile/immobile property corresponding to 13.400 Jews and they are all dated on the 1st of March 1943.The cards contain personal information as well as itemized lists of real and material property subsequently aryanized by occupying forces and Greek collaborators.
Βιβλία Απογραφής Επιζώντων του Ολοκαυτώματος
- Registry Records of the Holocaust Survivors
- Vivlia Apografis Epizonton Olokaftomatos
- Ισραηλιτική Κοινότητα Θεσσαλονίκης (Γενικά Κοινοτικά Αρχεία)
- 02701-02709
- English
- 1945-1946
- 9 bounded books.
- Updated 10 years ago
The collection contains information on names, surnames, place and date of birth, residence, education, profession before, during and after WWII, personal stories in camps, living conditions after the return to Thessaloniki.
Αρχείο Ισραηλιτικής Κοινότητας Καβάλας
- Archive of the Jewish Community in Kavala
- Archeio Isralitikis Koinotitas Kavalas
- Ισραηλιτική Κοινότητα Θεσσαλονίκης (Γενικά Κοινοτικά Αρχεία)
- AIKK1
- English
- 1927-1984
- 10 archival boxes, 1 book; 1,1 linear meters. Unclassified material.
- Updated 10 years ago
The Archive contains correspondence among the community in Kavala and other communities, the Greek authorities, Holocaust survivors, members of the families with Holocaust victims.
Βιβλία πρακτικών της Κοινοτικής Συνέλευσης
- Books of Minutes of the Communal Assembly
- Vivlia Praktikon tis Koinotikis Synelefsis
- Ισραηλιτική Κοινότητα Θεσσαλονίκης (Γενικά Κοινοτικά Αρχεία)
- CA1
- English
- 1945-2004
- 18 books, 0,6 linear meters.
- Updated 10 years ago
It contains information on the postwar Jewish life in Thessaloniki.
Αρχείο Εκλογών
- Archive of Elections
- Archeio Eklogon
- Ισραηλιτική Κοινότητα Θεσσαλονίκης (Γενικά Κοινοτικά Αρχεία)
- E1
- English
- 1946-2010
- 45 archival boxes; 3,6 linear meters.
- Updated 10 years ago
The archive contains information on the communal elections, the Holocaust survivors.
Ηλεκτρονικός κατάλογος θυμάτων Ολοκαυτώματος
- Electronic Catalogue with Holocaust Victims
- Ilektronikos katalogos thymaton Olokaftomatos
- Ισραηλιτική Κοινότητα Θεσσαλονίκης (Γενικά Κοινοτικά Αρχεία)
- ECHV1
- English
- Updated 10 years ago
The catalogue has been created by Ms Aliki Arouh and contains 25.475 names of Holocaust victims from Thessaloniki. It also provides information on age, place of birth, address of residence etc.
Ιδιωτική Συλλογή Ιλάν Κάρμι
- Private Collection Ilan Karmi
- Idiotiki Syllogi Ilan Karmi
- Ισραηλιτική Κοινότητα Θεσσαλονίκης (Γενικά Κοινοτικά Αρχεία)
- ISIK01
- English
- 23 archival boxes, 2,2 linear meters. Unclassefied archival material.
- Updated 10 years ago
The collection contains the writer's notes on his research, personal correspondence, books.
Συλλογές δικαστικού υλικού
- Collections of Judicial Material
- Sylloges Dikastikou Ylikou
- Ισραηλιτική Κοινότητα Θεσσαλονίκης (Γενικά Κοινοτικά Αρχεία)
- SDY1
- English
- 1942-1968
- 42 archival boxes, 2 folders.
- Updated 10 years ago
The archival holdings contain judicial material from Max Merten's trial (1942-1959), trials against Greek Christian and Jewish collaborators (1946-1959), decisions of the Court of the First Instance in Thessaloniki (certificates of deaths) [1945-1968].