Selected records pertaining to Jews in Albania

Identifier
irn524233
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2007.140
  • RG-79.001
Dates
1 Jan 1712 - 31 Dec 1950, 1 Jan 1930 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Albanian
  • Italian
  • French
  • German
  • Otherlanguages
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

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5,381 digital images, PNG

Archival History

Drejtoria e Përgjithshme e Arkivave

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 State Central Archives of Albania. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in June 2007.

Scope and Content

Contains excerpts from many files of the Albanian Central Archive collections. The contents are records about Jews in Albania before, during and after the Second World War. Some of the varied topics are: taxation of Jews vs. non-Jews; information on the Jewish community in various localities; governmental decisions regarding Jews; Jews in trade and commerce; demographic and census statistics; petitions made by Jews and resulting decisions; name lists of foreign citizens resident in Albania, including Jews holding foreign citizenship; correspondence with James McDonald of League of Nations concerning his request for permission to settle German Jewish immigrants in Albania; other correspondence with League of Nations; correspondence concerning individual European Jews desiring to immigrate to Albania; residence permits for foreign Jews; lists of Jews living in various Albanian towns and cities; correspondence with Italian consulate and others about aid from the Hebrew committee in New York for 500 Jewish families in Albania; decrees about monthly tourist visas for Jews seeking entry into Albania; requests of Jews seeking travel to or from Italy, wartime regulations concerning foreigners in Albania; illegal employment of Jews; and a postwar request of Israel for repatriation of Jews in Albania.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Drejtoria e Përgjithshme e Arkivave

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.