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Holding Institution: Hrvatski državni arhiv

  1. Ministarstvo vanjskih poslova Nezavisne Države Hrvatske

    • The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Independent State of Croatia

    Some files from the Minister's cabinet have been saved, on the most important issues of foreign policy, as well as his correspondence and reports admitted from the Croatian embassies in other countries. A significant portion of the collection consists of the writings of the Political Department, relations with the Croatia's allied countries: Italy and Germany, as well as countries in the neighborhood. Usually the Ministry followed the Italians relationship with Serbian Chetniks and the Serbian population and exceeding of the Italian authorities on the ground of ISC; follow the realization o...

  2. Ministarstvo pravosuđa i bogoštovlja Nezavisne Države Hrvatske

    • The Ministry of Justice and Religious Affairs of the Independent State of Croatia

    Sub-collection, referring to the work of the Department of Justice holds both the secret and general records of the General Judicial Department, drafts and bills, laws and orders, rules and circulars and interpretations, personal correspondence of clerks, judges, clerks and general legal staff, financial records of the Judicial Foundation, with individual and group payments to the Judicial Foundation; calculations, and accounts of the Foundation, reports from the penitentiaries, judicial and other prisons, lists of convicts, pardon applications, files of bar associations, of lawyers and not...

  3. Ministarstvo skrbi za postradale krajeve Nezavisne Države Hrvatske

    • The Ministry of Welfare for the War-Affected Areas of the Independent State of Croatia (ISC)

    The collection holds pleas for help from refugees within the ISC. Note that the refugees in question mostly are non-Jewish, as the dates point it is towards the end of the war, but the collection might be interesting to appraise the general atmosphere of social welfare after the collapse of Italy in 1943. It is not excluded some of the cases handled within the collection refer to the remaining Jews in Croatia.

  4. Projekt Dotrščina: Zagrepčani - revolucionari, antifašisti i žrtve fašističkog terora 1941. - 1945. (podserija)

    • The Dotrščina Park Project: citizens of Zagreb, revolutionaries, anti-Fascist fighters and victims of fascist terror 1941-1945

    The Dotrsicna park in Zagreb is the site of the mass murder where around 18 000 citizens of Zagreb and its surroundings were shot during the Fascist regime due to their ethnic background, or the fact they were anti-regime. Thanks to archivists Josipa Paver and Igor Graovac, there was systematic work on the names of the victims from 1967 until the late 1990s. The project started in the State Archive back in 1967, and lasted, with interruptions, until April 1985. The project examined the records of the Croatian State Archives, the former archives of the Institute of History of the labor movem...

  5. Zbirka vjerske zajednice

    • Religious communities collection

    Box 2 (51-135); Box 3 • 2/1365, Izv. broj 131/ Document #131, Rad nove cionističke organizacije/ The work of the New Zionist organization, pgs 2 • 2/1365, Izv. broj 132/ Document # 132, Postupak njemačkih izbjeglica/ German refugees, pgs 2 • 3/ 1365, Izv. broj 159/ Document # 159, Gospodine podbane/ “Mr. Deputy Governor”,pgs 2 • 3/1365, Izv. #144, Cionistički.../ Zionist..., pgs 2 • 3/1365, Izv. #147, Boravak predsjedništva/ The visit of the presidency board

  6. Banovina Hrvatska. Kabinet bana.

    • The governance of Croatia, Governor’s office

  7. Pokrajinska uprava za Hrvatsku i Slavoniju

    • Regional administration office for Croatia and Slavonia

    Department for Religious Affairs; Department for the issue of national status and citizenship

  8. Banovina Hrvatska. Odjeljak za državnu zaštitu, Zagreb.

    • Governance of Croatia; Department of state security, HQ in Zagreb.

  9. Savska Banovina: upravno odijeljenje

    • Sava Region Governance: Department of Administration

  10. Velika Župa Posavje

    • The Great Governorate of Posavje

    Velika Župa was the highest regional authority in the Independent State of Croatia. It was responsible only to the Poglavnik Ante Pavelić, who personally named its leader, and to the respective state ministries. Velika Župa Posavje was founded on 10 June 1941 with the seat in the contemporary town of Slavonski Brod and continued to function until 1945. Velika Župa Posavje included the administrative units (kotar) of Bijeljina, Brčko, Brod na Savi, Derventa, Gradačac and Županja. Researchers of the Holocaust will find the “Very secret files” (1 box) and “Secret files” (14 boxes) useful. “Ver...