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Country: Bosnia & Herzegovina

  1. Matična knjiga rođenih Sarajevo

    • Parish registry Sarajevo

    Contains information about Jewish community members (births, deaths, etc.). Can be used to track Jewish heritage or family members, Holocaust victims or survivors..

  2. Collection of photographs and documents

    The Museum owns a collection of mostly photographs that depicts old synagogue, Jewish cemetery in Bihać, Jewish stores before the Second World War, etc. While basic, it might still be valuable for research into local Jewish community and Holocaust.

  3. Document collection of the Museum

    The part of Museum dedicated to Bosnian Jews (Jewish Museum) is located in old synagogue, in Sarajevo. The collection contains plenty of exhibits, but it also includes documentation and archival material among which are photographs, movie scripts, illustrations and paintings, lists of non-Jews who assisted or hid Jews during the Holocaust, book of Jewish victims, diaries, etc

  4. Uprava državnih nekretnina Sarajevo

    • The Office for State Property Sarajevo

    The Office for State Property Sarajevo was in charge of managing confiscated property seized by the new Yugoslav regime (Communist Party), but also managing of property whose owners were unaccounted for or perished in concentration camps (Jews, Serbs, etc.).

  5. Riznično upraviteljstvo u Sarajevu - Ured za podržavljeni imetak

    • The Office for Nationalized Property

    The Office for Nationalized Property in Sarajevo had details about and managed the properties of those who had to leave the Independent State of Croatia or they were taken to concentration camps. In most cases, this is Jewish and Serbian property.

  6. Komisija za ratnu štetu Narodnog odbora sreza Sarajevo

    • The Committee for war damages of Sarajevo County

    Contains details about damages/losses committed by occupying Axis forces and their local collaborators in Sarajevo region. The information presented mostly gathered with the aim of seeking war reparations.

  7. Kotarsko nadzorništvo narodne zaštite Sarajevo

    • District's Office for national protection Sarajevo

    Records that are part of the fond contain important information regarding the situation in Sarajevo and its immediate area during World War II (air raids and bombing of the city, lists of deceased people, information about property, etc.)

  8. Izraelička-Sefardička osnovna škola Sarajevo

    • Sephardic Primary School Sarajevo

    The school in Sarajevo for Jewish (Sephardi) children was formed in 1903. Records (books) of the school were preserved and kept in Elementary school "Jovan Jovanović Zmaj" Sarajevo, from which they were transferred to the Archive of Sarajevo. While not directly related to the Holocaust period, it is of significance for tracking information regarding Jewish families that lived in Sarajevo before World War 2, their addresses, education, family ties, etc. and comparing it to other data.

  9. Narodni odbor Grada Sarajeva

    • City Committee of Sarajevo

    Sarajevo, as a city and separate political and territorial unit became a separate government unit in 1945. City's People Liberation Committee was formed on 19th of April 1945 and operated until 21st of July 1945, shortly after the end of World War II in Europe (May 1945), when it was reformed and renamed to City's People Committee. The documentation deals with Sarajevo's five districts and has information about last stages of World War II and its aftermath and consequences.

  10. Državno ravnateljstvo za gospodarstvenu ponovu - podružnica Sarajevo

    • State Directorate for Economic Renewal - Sarajevo's branch

    Contains decrees issued by the State Treasury of the Independent State of Croatia regarding the confiscation of Jewish property in Sarajevo. Also included are correspondence regarding the confiscation of Jewish property, appeals by local Jews, and inspection of confiscated shops, stores and other property. Related to to the city of Sarajevo.

  11. Rizničko upraviteljstvo u Sarajevu - Ured za upravu židovskih nekretnina

    • The Office for Management of Jewish Estate

    The Office for Management of Jewish Estate was working in accordance with the laws of the Independent State of Croatia that enforced expropriation of Jewish property and Jewish companies and making them state-owned property. The fond contains records about confiscation of Jewish properties in Sarajevo in 1942; these provide information regarding the owners including names, addresses and property description.

  12. Župsko redarstveno ravnateljstvo Banja Luka

    • County's Police Directorate of Banjaluka

    Records contained in this small fond were created by the Police Directorate of the county, under the Independent State of Croatia, puppet state of Nazi Germany. This state and its police force persecuted Serbs, Jews, Roma, etc.

  13. Velika župa Sana i Luka Banja Luka

    • The Province of Sana and Luka

    The records contain information created by one of regional government of Axis-puppet state, the Independent State of Croatia. The county of Sana and Luka had it's capital in Banja Luka in northwestern Bosnia. Banja Luka was considered as potential capital of the Independent State of Croatia, as it was geographically it's center, and this was seen as politically prudent. But this move of capital from Zagreb to Banja Luka was never completed.

  14. Ustaški stožer i Povjereništvo za bivšu Vrbasku banovinu Banjaluka

    • Ustasha Headquarters and the Commission for former Vrbas banovina (province) Banjaluka

    Contains records of local Ustasha regime in Banjaluka, which was also the seat of former Vrbas province (banovina) in Yugoslavia. Ustasha movement led the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska) as a puppet-state of Nazi Germany and Italy. In accordance with that, it followed series of Nazi-approved laws regarding racial purity. Ustasha's persecuted Jews, Serbs, Roma, etc.

  15. Sudbeni stol kao provedbeni sud za ratne ozljeđenike Banjaluka

    • Court Table of Banja Luka

    Contains records of the Court Table of Banjaluka which was one of 19 regional courts formed in the Independent State of Croatia. These courts were abolished in 1945, and their legal decisions were annulled.

  16. Ravnateljstvo za ponovu Banjaluka

    • The Directorate for Renewal Banjaluka

    Another local government branch, it was in charge of economical issues for Banjaluka, as part of the Independent State of Croatia. Only one box of material is available.

  17. Rizničko upraviteljstvo Banjaluka

    • Treasury directorate of Banjaluka

    Contains documents of financial and related provenance regarding government management for period 1941-1945 in Banjaluka and its area.

  18. Okružna uprava narodnih dobara Banjaluka

    • The Office for Regional Management of public property Banjaluka

    The fond contains records about property and goods, land, buildings, companies, etc that were nationalized and became the state property under Communist Yugoslavia, right after World War 2. In some cases, not only property of Germans and their collaborators became state property, but also the state managed properties of those who were killed during the war (in concentration camps, etc.) or their whereabouts were unknown. In case of Jewish people, the state introduced state-management of their properties either until legal inheritors claimed the property in question, or permanently in cases ...

  19. Oblasni Narodni oslobodilački odbor za Bosansku krajinu

    • Regional People's Liberation Committee for Bosanska Krajina

    Regional People's Liberation committees were formed during World War 2 to ensure organizational and political activity in liberated territories of Yugoslavia. They were formed by the Communist Partisans, and their goal and task was to regulate everyday life in free, liberated territories; it participated in resolving sensitive issues and problems, thus earning good reputation among the population. The material contains data produced by Regional People's Liberation Committee for Bosanska Krajina (northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina).

  20. Gradsko poglavarstvo Banjaluka

    • Municipality of Banjaluka 1941-1945

    Contains records of local, municipal government of Banjaluka for 1941-1954, during the Independent State of Croatia's rule.