Central State Archive Selected records from the Archivio Centrale dello Stato
Extent and Medium
67 microfilm reels, 16 mm
Archival History
Archivio centrale dello Stato (Italy)
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Archivio Centrale dello Stato (Central State Archives), Italy. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archive Programs Division surveyed the Central State Archives of Italy in 1998 and ordered the filming of selected records the same year. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the first 59 microfilm reels on May 24, 1999, and the remaining 9 microfilm reels in 2001.
Scope and Content
This collection includes documents, correspondence, lists, permits, and reports relating to concentration camps, arrested individuals, visits to prisoners, the help committee for German Jews in Italy, Jewish refugees, Jewish property, racial laws, communists, anti-Fascists, the Italian police, the Ministry of the Interior, interned foreigners, people applying for decisions about their racial origin, and the Direzione Generale Demografia e Razza.
System of Arrangement
Organized into two series; 1. Direzione Generale dei Servizi di Guerra 1941-1945 (War Office General Directorate 1941-1945) reel 1-59. 2. Direzione Generale Demografia e Razza, Divisione Razza 1938-1943 (Demographics and Race General Directorate, Race Office 1938-1943) reel 60-68 Arrangement is thematic
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali a del turismo
Corporate Bodies
- Partito nazionale fascista (Italy)
Subjects
- Antisemitism--Europe--History.
- Fascism--Italy--History.
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Italy.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Italy.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Italy.
- Italy--Politics and government--1922-1945.
- Jews, German--Italy--History--20th century.
- Jewish refugees--Italy--History--20th century--Registers.
Genre
- Document
- Registers.
- Reports.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archivio centrale dello Stato (Italy)