Archival Descriptions

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Language of Description: English
Country: Greece
  1. The Photographic Archive of the Jewish Museum of Greece

    • Φωτογραφικό Αρχείο του Εβραϊκού Μουσείου της Ελλάδος

    The photographic archive of the JMG includes a large number of photographs that cover all aspects of Jewish life and tradition in Greece. The photographic material consists of original black-and-white photographs, printed copies of original pictures, colour photographs and slides. The main body of this material is the primary archive of original photographs, which have been donated to the Museum by their owners and which are kept separately. These photographs have been copied and replaced with 13 x 18 cm copies, as well as film negatives and contact prints of those. The access to the origin...

  2. Αρχείο Ιωσήφ Σιακκή

    • The Joseph Siakkis Archives
    • Archeio Siakkis Iosif

    Contains records related to the history of the Jewish communities of Greece. The archives are organized into 28 thematic sections. The most important topics are: 1. History of Greek Jewry and Jewish communities of Thessaloniki, Kerkyra [Corfu], Larissa, Volos, Trikala, Zakynthos, Chania, Preveza, Sparta, Chalkis and other major Jewish centers; 2. Antisemitism, Nazi occupation and Holocaust; 3. Collections of Jewish periodicals (Kerkyra and Athens); 4. Records of the Greek Jewish family names, personal correspondence, literary essays and poetry.

  3. Συλλογή Σαλτιέλ Μωρίς

    • Saltiel Maurice Collection
    • Sillogi Saltiel Moris

    The collection tracks Maurice Saltiel’s public action in the post-war cultural events of Thessaloniki. The largest and most important part of the collection is related to the "Art" Macedonian Artistic Society and its activity. The collection includes the founding declaration, bylaws, correspondence, event programs and diverse material from various actions and claims (e.g. the request for the establishment of a School of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki) of the union. There are documents related to the Coordinating Committee of Northern Cultural Associations of Greece, the State Theater of Northern...

  4. Η Εμπειρία των Εβραίων της Ελλάδας στις οπτικο-ακουστικές Μαρτυρίες

    • Database of Greek-Jewish Holocaust Survivors' Testimonies
    • I Empeiria ton Evraion tis Elladas stis optiko-akoustikes Martyries

    The database contains more than 800 pieces of evidence which were collected at different times and in different languages and places: Greece. elsewhere in Europe, the United States, and Israel.The ambition is that the database will be a tool which will facilitate scholars in locating and accessing the material.

  5. Συλλογή Δεληγιάννη Ιωάννη

    • Deligiannis Ioannis Collection
    • Sillogi Deligianni Ioanni

    The collection consists of two sections. The first section concerns the academic career and the social action of Deligiannis. Participation in conferences, suggestions, articles, material about family law and teaching material. It also contains correspondence with his colleagues and institutions, and material from the administrative positions he held. The second section consists of legal cases undertaken by his legal office. There are many cases of divorce, contracts, real estate, corporate and civil disputes. Important for the history of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki are some record...

  6. History of Jewish Construction and Architectural Activity in Thessaloniki: Jewish-owned commercial use buildings accomodating stores, offices and workshops (1922-1930)

    • History of Jewish Construction and Architectural Activity in Thessaloniki
    • Εβραϊκό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης
    • JMT.11
    • English
    • 1922-1930
    • A website and an application for smartphones containing information for approximately 125 buildings, all of which were built by Jewish owners during the reconstruction of Thessaloniki in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1917.

    The project includes an exhibition of archival material, applications for smartphones (iOS and Android) and a dedicated website. The project explores the conditions in Thessaloniki’s commercial center following the redevelopment and redistribution of land that took place in the 1920s, which resulted in the destruction of the traditional urban fabric of Jewish residential districts that had coexisted with commercial activities for centuries. The redistribution of land and the new urban plan that followed the Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 forced the vast majority of Jewish families to reloc...

  7. Σφαέλλος, Δημήτριος

    • Sfaellos, Dimitrios

    The archive contains articles and speeches of D. Sfaellos, as well as correspondence from his period of activity in the National Student Association, organizational documents and correspondence of the National Union of Greece (known as EEE) branch of Athens, notices, invitations and various documents related to the 1946 elections, correspondence from the period 1945-1948, correspondence related to the charities he did, family correspondence and personal documents. It also contains a folder related to the yarn and textile industry "O Vambax" (The Cotton).

  8. Συντονιστικό Γραφείο Μειονοτικών Σχολείων (πρώην Επιθεώρηση Θρησκευμάτων, Τεχνικών, Ξένων και Μειονοτικών Σχολείων Γενικής Διοικήσεως Μακεδονίας)

    • Coordinating Office of Minority Schools

    Archive of the Directorate of Religious Affairs, Foreign and Minority Schools of the General Administration of Macedonia: Reports, memoranda, caralogues, etc. regarding Occupation and civil war, 1941-1949; Inspection Archive: Circulars and Orders, reports and memos about foreign and minority schools (Armenian, Jewish, Catholic, Muslim, etc.), foreign monasteries, foreign clergy, etc., 1941-1955; Foreign private schools: Tables of enrolled students by nationality, religion, language,1947-1948; Incoming documents from the General Administration of Macedonia and the German Authorities: Reports...

  9. Αρχείο Ανωτάτης Διευθύνσεως Δημοσίας Εκπαιδεύσεως της Προσωρινής Κυβέρνησης Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Archive of the Supreme Directorate of Public Education of the Provisional Government of Thessaloniki

    The archive is part of the archives of the Provisional Government of Thessaloniki (1916-1917). It is a source of information on important social and political issues of the New Countries (Macedonia & Thrace) in the face of the WWI and the National Schism (Ethnikos Dichasmos) in Greece. In the archive there is evidence concerning the actions of the Entente forces in Macedonia. It includes the correspondence of the adviser of Public Education with officials of the services of the Army of the Orient (Armée d' Orient), on matters of food supply, movement control, the release of detainees an...

  10. Τόποι κράτησης και μνήμης: Nαζιστικά στρατόπεδα συγκέντρωσης στην Ελλάδα (1941-1944)

    • Places of Detainment and Memory: Nazi Concentration Camps in Greece, 1941-1944
    • Topoi kratisis kai mnimis: Nazistika stratopeda sigkentrosis stin Ellada, 1941-1944

    The project’s aim was the detailed description of three designated places of detention in Greece: the Pavlos Melas Camp in Stavroupoli, Thessaloniki, the Haidari Camp in Athens and the Larissa Camp. An additional aim of the program was the scientific documentation of the camps’ characteristics, of their mode of operation and of the purpose they served, according to: a) the conclusions drawn from the living conditions and the experiences of prisoners in the camps and b) the categorization applied by the German authorities (places of detention, ghettos, transit centers, concentration camps, e...

  11. Συλλογή Αμίρ Μωύς

    • Amir Moys Collection
    • Syllogi Amir Moys

    A collection of 1.100 photos related to the postwar life and activities of the Jewish Community in Thessaloniki and a small collection of documents related to the local Jewish Community. The photos concern social and religious events of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, mainly from 1960’s and 1970’s. The photographs were shot by Panos Tsiftsis, who maintained photo studio on Tsimiski Street. The photos were sold and distributed by Amir. The collection contains also some personal documents of Amir, as well as invitations and announcements of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki.

  12. 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.

  13. Δηλώσεις Περιουσιών προς τις Γερμανικές Αρχές (1943)

    • Declaration of Property to the German Authorities (1943)
    • Diloseis Periousion pros tis Germanikes Arches (1943)

    The archive contains 4.200 declarations of mobile/immobile property corresponding to 13.400 Jews and they are all dated on the 1st of March 1943.The cards contain personal information as well as itemized lists of real and material property subsequently aryanized by occupying forces and Greek collaborators.

  14. Αρχείο της Ισραηλιτικής Κοινότητας Πατρών

    • Records of the Jewish Community in Patras
    • Archeio tis Israilitikis Koinotitas Patron

    "Consists of correspondence files concerning the postwar activities of the Jewish community of Patras. Topics include restitution, commemoration of Holocaust victims, elections to the Board of the Jewish Community, burial permissions, maintenance of the Jewish cemetery, and disposal of the community’s property. There are also financial records, minutes of Board meetings, and a list of community members." (USHMM)

  15. Αρχείο του Εμπορικού και Βιομηχανικού Επιμελητηρίου Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Archive of the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry
    • Archeio tou Emborikou kai Viomechanikou Epimeleteriou Thessalonikes

    The archive consists of listing of companies and businesses that have been established in the city of Thessaloniki since 1919. From 1992 and onwards, the registration is digital. Its physical form which is handwritten is divided into three periods: i. 1919 - 1935 (58 inventory books) ii. 1935 - 1970 (46 inventory books with approximately 12,000 entries) iii. 1970 -1990 Greek Jewish activity consists of a significant part of the archive, when in March 1943, all Jewish businesses were banished, under the orders of the Supreme Military Governor of the North Aegean.

  16. Yale Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

    The Fortunoff Archive consists of testimonies of willing individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, including those who were in hiding, survivors, bystanders, resistants, and liberators. Testimonies were recorded in whatever language the witness preferred, and range in length from 30 minutes to over 40 hours (recorded over several sessions).

  17. Συλλογή Ιωάννη Μέγα

    • Megas Ioannis Collection; Syllogi Ioanni Mega

    The Megas Ioannis collection includes letters, photos, postcards related to the history of Thessaloniki. A large number of postcards depicts Jewish people or buildings belonging to members of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki.

  18. Αρχείο της Ιστορίας των Ελλήνων Εβραίων

    • Archive of the History of the Greek Jews
    • Archeio tis Istorias ton Ellinon Evraion

    The collection consists of documents related to the history of the Jews in Greece, the State policy towards the Jews, the situation of the Jews in Greece and the Balkan States as the Greek State was expanded from the end of the 19th century to the mid of the 20th century. It covers the Nazi-era and topics as the situation of the Greek Jews who lived in other countries, as Romania, the antisemitic measures taken by the German authorities, the deportations of the Jews in German and Bulgarian occupied zone, the case of the Jews in Dodecanese, the issue of the Italian Jews who lived in Greece, ...

  19. Αρχείο Γαβριήλ Γαβριηλίδη

    • Archive of Gavriel Gavrielides
    • Archeio Gavrielides Gavriel

    Consists of the personal archive of Gavriel Gavrielides, a Jewish lawyer who provided legal counsel to the Jewish Community of Rhodes, the Organization for the Relief and Rehabilitation of Greek Jews (OPAIE), the Central Board of Greek Jewish Communities, the Jewish Community of Athens, and other Jewish organizations in Greece after World War II. Also of interest are cases of individual Jews against the OPAIE.

  20. Κοµµουνιστικό Κόµµα Ελλάδας (ΚΚΕ)

    • Greek Communist Party (KKE)
    • Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (KKE)

    • Congresses, conferences and plenary sessions of the KKE Central Committee (1945- 1968). • Secret shorthand minutes of plenary sessions of the Central Committee. • Decisions and proclamations of the Politburo (1944-1968). • Correspondence of the Central Committee with illegal party organizations in Greece and KKE organizations in Eastern European countries. Central contact mechanisms in Western Europe (1946-1968); Relations of the KKE with the communist movements of the Eastern countries (in particular: USSR, Yugoslavia, Albania) during the years of the Civil War in Greece; Party organizat...