Postwar court records relating to the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki
Extent and Medium
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10,000 photocopies,
Archival History
Mr. Christos Cavvadas
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.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections Division, Archives branch received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project Division in January 2005.
Scope and Content
Consists of 3,737 court cases from the Court of Thessaloniki, minutes of meetings, reports based on minutes, reports of the court reporters, etc. Records relate to petitions to the court by Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, either seeking approval for a formation of a relatives' council and the appointment of a committee "on behalf of those absent in Poland" or legal confirmation that their relatives, lifetime residents of Thessaloniki named in their petitions, have been killed in Birkenau or Auschwitz, or died on the way there.
System of Arrangement
Organized by the case file number. Arrangement is chronological.
Subjects
- Thessalonikē (Greece)
- Jewish property--Greece--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Greece.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Europe.
- Jewish communities (ushmm)
- Thessalonikē (Greece : Regional unit)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Greece.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Greece--Sources.
Genre
- Document