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  1. Ilja Rud-Gercovskis

    The personal fonds of the well-known screen and scriptwriter, and actor. In the first days of the Second World War he was able to escape to the East of the Soviet Union. He survived the Holocaust and after the war returned to Vilnius. The files of his personal fonds include drafts, scripts, personal documentation, and photos.

  2. Grigorijus Kanovičius

    The fonds of the activities and writings of the famous Jewish writer Grigorijus Kanovičius, who, age twelve, was able to escape to the East in the first days of the Second World war and thereby survived the Holocaust. In 1945 he returned to Vilnius; he graduated from Vilnius University and in 1959 published his first novel. His novels and short stories depict life in the shtetls before the war and how life changed later, and how the Jewish communities were destroyed. The files of this personal fonds consist of drafts, fragments of novels, correspondence, personal photos, photos from events ...

  3. Jokūbas Josadė

    The personal fonds of a famous Jewish writer who was able to escape in the first days of the Second World War to the East of the Soviet Union. There he joined to the Lithuanian 16th division of the Red Army and survived the Holocaust. The files of the fonds consist of drafts, notes, novels with corrections, articles, translations, diaries; personal documents, photos, correspondence; video documents; documents collected by J. Josadė; documents of family members about J. Josadė).

  4. Chaimas Potašinskas

    The personal fonds of the famous Jewish conductor Chaimas Potašinskas, a survivor of the Holocaust. The fonds consists of personal documents, photos, correspondence, programs of the conducted concerts, performances, ballets, concert posters, articles, etc.

  5. Aronas Soloveičikas

    The personal fonds of the painter, a survivor of the Holocaust. The files of the personal fonds consist of paintings, drafts, sketches, illustrations; correspondence, personal documents; catalogues of the artist’s exhibitions, etc.

  6. Žydų muzikos institutas Vilniuje

    • Jewish Musical Institute in Vilnius

    Files of the institute’s activities; regulations of the institute; lists of personnel and students; registers and protocols of exams; protocols of the teacher board’s correspondence with "Joint" organization in Warsaw concerning financing and graduation certificates of students, and correspondence with other organizations about concerts of institute students and applications to the chief of the Vilnius city and district to obtain permissions for the concerts. At the beginning of the Nazi occupation all Jewish students and teachers were dismissed. They were moved to the Vilnius ghetto in Sep...

  7. Viktoras Golovčineris

    Personal fonds of the activities of the Russian theatre director Viktoras Golovčineris (1955-1962), who was able to survive the Holocaust in the East of the Soviet Union. The files consist of various performances programs, photos, posters, sketches of sceneries, drafts, correspondence, letters to his wife E. Gercberg, personal documents, video material, etc. .

  8. Αρχείο Πρωτοδικείου Θεσσαλονίκης - Ναζιστικές αποφάσεις

    • Archive of the Court of First Instance in Thessaloniki - Decisions for the Nazi era
    • Archeio Protodikeiou Thessalonikis - Nazistikes apofaseis

    Applications, proceedings, decisions according to the Law 4781/1961 "Agreement between Greece and Germany on the compensation of individuals who suffered damages from National-socialism".

  9. Seinų apskrities viršininkas

    • Chief of Seinai County

    The fonds consists of personal documents of residents, documents concerning everyday life, applications from residents about various matters, applications of residents to obtain passports, registers of war refugees, lists of residents (Jewish names included),

  10. Stockholmi követség iratai, 1920-1945

    • Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Stockholm, 1920-1945

    Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Stockholm, the capital city of neutral Sweden contain considerable material concerning Hungarian Jews from 1938 to 1944, from the era of anti-Jewish laws and the Holocaust. Relevant parts of the collection include in large quantities citizenship cases, inheritance-related cases, there are birth and divorce certificates, visa-related documents of Hungarian Jews emigrated to Sweden. In this collection there are records about different cases of pertaining to Hungarian Jews: documents about visa falsification, withdrawal of citizenship, refugees, request for ...

  11. Nyilas Képviselőház, 1944-1945 (Sopron)

    • The Arrow Cross Parliament, 1944-1945 (Sopron)

    After the botched attempt of Regent Miklós Horthy in mid-October 1944 to switch sides in the war, power in Hungary was taken over by the Arrow Cross who committed the country to the war effort on the side of Nazi Germany. The military situation deteriorated further for the Axis powers and by November the Arrow Cross leadership decided to move its seat westward from Budapest to the Hungarian-Austrian border area. The central offices of the leadership moved to Kőszeg while the sessions of the rump parliament were held in Sopron where they operated until March 1945. This collection contains do...

  12. Αρχείο Πολεμικών Αποζημιώσεων - Ρουμανία

    • Archive of the War Reparations - Romania
    • Archeio Polemikon Apozimioseon-Roumania

    Issues on the Greek demands against Romania. Material related to Greek Jews.

  13. Αρχείο Πολεμικών Αποζημιώσεων - Βουλγαρία

    • Archive of the War Reparations - Bulgaria
    • Archeio Polemikon Apozimioseon-Voulgaria

    Issues on the Greek demands against Bulgaria. Material related to Greek Jews under Bulgarian Occupation in the regions of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.

  14. Αρχείο Πολεμικών Αποζημιώσεων - Ιταλία

    • Archive of the War Reparations - Italy
    • Archeio Polemikon Apozimioseon-Italia

    Issues on the Greek demands against Italy. Material related to Jews under Italian Occupation in Dodecanese.

  15. Αρχείο Πολεμικών Αποζημιώσεων - Δυτική Γερμανία

    • Archive of the War Reparations - West Germany
    • Archeio Polemikon Apozimioseon-Dytiki Germania

    Issues on the Greek demands against Germany. Material related to Greek Jews.

  16. Αρχείο Πρεσβείας Παρίσι

    • Archive of the Embassy in Paris
    • Archeio Presveias Parisi

  17. Αρχείο Πρεσβείας Καϊρου

    • Archive of the Embassy in Cairo
    • Archeio Presveias Kairou

    The archive contains documents related to the diplomatic, political and financial affairs between Greece and Khedivate of Egypt and later the State of Egypt form the end of the 19th century until the end of the 20th century, the situation of the large Greek communities in the country. The files related to the Holocaust covers the period from 1937 to 1961. The relevant topics are the situation of the Greek Jews in Greece and Egypt, the German compensations to the Holocaust victims.

  18. Αρχείο Πρεσβείας Ουάσιγκτον

    • Archive of the Embassy in Washington
    • Archeio Presveias Ouasigton

    The Archive consists of documents related to the Greek American diplomatic, political and financial relations, the situation of the American Greek communitites in the States, issues relevant to the Greek authorities in the States, private affairs of Greek citizens. The relevant material to the Holocaust and the Greek Jews covers the period from 1937 to 1957. It contains material about the relations between the United States and the Nazi Germany, the situtation of the Greek Jews during and after the Second World War, property issues of the Holocaust victims.

  19. Αρχείο της Κεντρικής Υπηρεσίας, 1941-1946

    • Archive of the Central Administration, 1941-1946
    • Archeio tis Kentrikis Ypiresias, 1941-1946

    Reports on the Greek population and the general conditions under the German, Bulgarian and Italian Occupation. Famine, oppression, deportation of Jews, massacres, executions, political, social, educational measures, the issues of the Jewish properties, Jewish immigration to Palestine.

  20. Αρχείο Τεζεδάκης Νικόλαος

    • Archive Tazedaki Nicholas
    • Archeio Tazedakis Nikolaos

    It includes notices, decisions in newspapers for death sentences, executions committed by the Germans, Nazi orders for the Greek Jews and articles on the arrival of Holocaust survivors in Thessaloniki.