Selected records from the General State Archives in Volos (GAK Magnesia)
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Archival History
Genika Archeia tou Kratous. Archeia Nomou Magnisias
Acquisition
This collection forms part of the 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 Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Claims Conference
The source of acquisition is the Genika Archeia tou Kratous -Archeia Nomou Magnisias (General State Archives, Greece-Archives of Magnesia) .The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archival Programs in May 2021.
Scope and Content
The collection includes selected archival materials from four record groups: 1. Judical Archives: Special Court for Criminal Cases of Local Collaborators in the Volos area (Thessaly region) who committed crimes against the civilian population in the former Italian and German zones of occupation during the Second World. This collection contains court proceedings and verdicts against local collaborators; Court of First Instance in Volos (Political department). It contains court minutes and judicial records related to compensation payments to victims of Nazi persecution during World War II, includes the court cases of Holocaust survivors, as well as Jews who have lost their relatives, applied for monetary compensation for losses of personal property and assets under the occupation; 2. Administrative Archives: Includes archival records concerning Jewish enterprises in Volos from the archives of the Department of Industry of the Prefecture of Magnesia, and records of the Special Commission on the Recognition of the Participants of the National Resistance (1941-1944) during WWII. It contains written testimonies of resistance fighters, including a large number of former Jewish partisans; 3. Archival records of the sanatorium "Ē Zōodochos Pēgē" established in the Pillion Mountains by Dr. Georgios Karamanis. It contains correspondence between the sanatorium administration Jewish Distribution Committee (Joint) representative office in Athens and the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki (1946-1947), personal and financial records of Jewish Holocaust survivors who were treated at the sanatorium after the war with the financial assistance provided by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; 4. Archive of the Children's Shelter of Volos (1922-1996). It contains minutes the Board of Directors, correspondence, activity reports, and children's registry.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in four groups: 1. Judical Archives: Archive of the Court of First Instance of Volvo (Political Decisions and Minutes: ΑΕΕ: Δικ/2.6, ΑΒΕ: 390); Special Collaborators' Court,1945-1953: ΑΕΕ: Δικ/2.10, ΑΒΕ: 648): Βιβλία 1-3; Political Decisions of the Law 1323/1949) (1950-1958); File, ΑΕΕ: Δικ/2.9, ΑΒΕ: 592): Βιβλία 1-11; Decisions on Reparations for Nazi victims: File ΑΕΕ: Δικ/2.9, ΑΒΕ: 592): Βιβλία 1-12; Bankruptcies, 1885-1958: file ΑΕΕ: Δικ/2.1, ΑΒΕ: 4): Φάκελος 42-Πτώχευση Ααρών Κοέν αρ. 29, 1637/1902 (1902 – 1915): 2. Administrative Archives: Archive of the Magnesia's Prefectur Directoriate of Industry (1901-1992): File (ΑΕΕ: Διοικ/9, ΑΒΕ: 117): Φάκ. 385 και 955); Archive of the National Organization of Tobacco- Prefecture of Magnesia (1932-2007): File (ΑΕΕ: Διοικ/43, ΑΒΕ: 554): Φάκ. 700, 700.2, 760, 1173, 1472, 1484, 1640, 1950, 2466, 2490, 24,96, 2555, 2555.1, Βιβλίο 3193; Archive of the Primary Committee for the Crisis of National Resistance Fighters 1941-1944 of the Prefecture of Magnesia; 3. Archives of Enterprices: Archival records of the sanatorium "Ē Zōodochos Pēgē"; File ΑΕΕ: Επιχ/23 (εισαγωγές: 1-2) ΑΒΕ: 5, 27: Φάκ. 1-48; 4. Archives of Associations: Archive of the Children's Shelter of Volos (1922-1996): File ΑΕΕ: Σωμ/4 (εισαγωγές: 1-2), ΑΒΕ: 227, 235): Φάκ. 2049, 2084, 2085, 2152, 2157, 2490, 2503, Βιβλία: 156, 1990.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Genika Archeia tou Kratous (Greece)
People
- Myliordos, Antonis.
- Karamanis, Georgios.
- Koumoulo, Kōnstantino.
- Karamanis, Yeorgios.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Subjects
- World War, 1939 -1945--Confiscations and contributions--Europe.
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Greece--History.
- Holocaust survivors--Greece--Volos--History.
- Children of Holocaust survivors--Greece--History--20th century.
- Thessalonike (Greece)
- Collaborationists--Greece--History--20th century.
- Jewish property--Greece--History--20th century.
- Jews--Persecutions--Greece--Volos.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Greece.
- Athens (Greece)--History--20th century.
- Court records--Greece--Volos--History--20th century--Sources.
- Crime and criminals--Greece--History--20th century.
- Volos (Greece)
Genre
- Applications.
- Document
- Testimonies.
- Registers.
- Correspondence.
- Minutes.
- Death certificates.
- Court records.