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Language of Description: English
Country: Greece

  1. Αρχείο Ειδικού Δικαστηρίου Δωσιλόγων

    • Archive of the Special Court for Collaborators
    • Archeio Eidikou Dikastiriou Dosilogon

    It contains proceedings and decisions of war trials. A number of these cases are relevant to the Jews of Volos.

  2. Γερμανικές Αποζημιώσεις

    • German Reparations
    • Germanikes Apozimioseis

    The archive concerns applications related to pensions' allocation pursuant to the West German Federal Indemnification Law (known as the Bundesentschädigungsgesetz, or BEG), the German Reich and Equivalent Legal Entities (Monetary Compensa-tion) Act (BRüG, of 19 July 1957, Federal Law Gazette I, p. 734) and the Greek Law Decree 4178/1961. Apart from these, part of the archival material refers to newer agreements about pensions' allocation. The archive also contains the community's correspondence in relation with its demands and its members' indemnifications.

  3. 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.

  4. Βιβλία Απογραφής Επιζώντων του Ολοκαυτώματος

    • Registry Records of the Holocaust Survivors
    • Vivlia Apografis Epizonton Olokaftomatos

    The collection contains information on names, surnames, place and date of birth, residence, education, profession before, during and after WWII, personal stories in camps, living conditions after the return to Thessaloniki.

  5. Αρχείο Ισραηλιτικής Κοινότητας Καβάλας

    • Archive of the Jewish community of Kavala
    • Archeio Israilitikis Koinotitas Kavalas

    The material covers the period of the interwar, the WWII and postwar. It's about the relations between the Jewish community and the local authorities and other Jewish communities in Macedonia and Thrace, the case of the old and the new Jewish cemetery, the economic situation of the community, the education and the communal school, the religious celebrations.

  6. Αρχείο της Επιχειρηματικής Δραστηριότητας των Εβραίων της Θεσσαλονίκης 1920-1940

    • Archive of the business activities of the Jews in Thessaloniki 1920-1940
    • Archeio tis Epicheirimatikis Drastiriotitas ton Evraion tis Thessalonikis 1920-1940

    It contains information and archival material for thousands of Jewish and mixed sociétés anonymes (S.A.s) and sole proprietorships.

  7. Αρχείο Χαρτών και Κατόψεων

    • Archive of Maps and Plans
    • Archeio Charton kai Katopseon

    It contains information about the Jewish districts and synagogues of Thessaloniki.

  8. Συλλογή Σαμπετάι Τσιμίνο

    • Collection Sabetay Tsimino
    • Collection Sabetay Tsimino

    It contains more than 4.000 Pages of testimonies in commemoration of the Greek Jews who lived in the Greek provinces of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace occupied by the Bulgarians (1941-1944). Its special forms were designed by Yad Vashem to restore the personal identity and brief life stories of the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices.

  9. Μικρές Συλλογές

    • Small Collections
    • Mikres Sylloges

    Photo archive: Copies of photographs of the Federal Archives of Germany (Jews’ concentration at Eleftherias Square in 1942) and original photographs of Jewish families and post-war communal events [1900-2013] Correspondence collection: it contains documents for trade, hereditary issues (unclassified).Collection of insurance booklets and passports before World War II (1920-1941).

  10. Αρχείο Εφημερίδων

    • Newspapers Archive
    • Archeio Efimeridon

    The collection contains the anti-Semitic newspaper "Nea Evropi" (from 15-04-1941 to 22-02-1944), the newspaper "Makedonia" (1940-1941) and a number of the newspaper "Apogevmatini" (1941-1943) newspaper. All were printed in Thessaloniki. One can also find the local Jewish newspapers "L'Ιndépendant" (01-01-1940 to 07-04-1941) and "Le Progrès" (01-03-1940 to 30-12-1940).The collection consists of seven volumes; two volumes for "Nea Evropi", two volumes for "Makedonia", one volume for issues of "Apogevmatini" issues, one volume for "L'Ιndépendant" and one volume for "Le Progrès".

  11. Συλλογή Στρατόπεδο Παύλου Μελά

    • Collection Military Camp Pavlou Mela
    • Syllogi Stratopedo Pavlou Mela

    Catalogue of the executed prisoners (among them 7 were Jewish).

  12. Δημοτικό Αρχείο - Γενικό Αρχείο

    • Municipal Archive-General Archive
    • Dimotiko Archeio-Geniko Archeio

    Decisions of the municipal council, correspondence with the government, correspondence with the Jewish community, files of Jewish clerks of Thessaloniki Municipality, Jewish associations, the issue of the Jewish cemetery, Jewish properties, certificates for the Holocaust victims and survivors.

  13. Συλλογή Ιωάννης Σταθάκης

    • Collection Ioannis Stathakis
    • Syllogi Ioannis Stathakis

    The collection covers the period from 1916 until 1982 and concerns mainly judicial cases of Christians and Jews of Thessaloniki the lawyer Ioannis Stathakis handled. In the collection one can find documents from a) collaborators'trials, b) cases of Jews that claim their confiscated property and b) the Max Merten Trial.

  14. Συλλογή Μοδιάνο

    • Collection Modiano
    • Syllogi Modiano

    Title deeds, contracts, correspondence with Italian Authorities, certificates of nationality, judicial documents.

  15. Συλλογή Σιμόπουλος Τάκης

    • Collection Simopoulos Takis
    • Syllogi Simopoulos Takis

    Personal documents, diary, documents of the Service for the Disposal of Jewish Property.

  16. Αρχείο Κτηματογραφικού Χάρτη Πυρίκαυστης Ζώνης Πόλης Σερρών

    • Archive Cadastral Map of the Burnt Zone in Serres
    • Archeio Ktimatografikou Charti Pyrikafstis Zonis Polis Serron

    A map with dimensions 1,45 by 2,46 meters, on which are plotted individual and communal properties (mostly Christian and Jewish) which were destroyed by the Bulgarians in the arson of the city in 1913. Although not connected directly to the Holocaust, it is very useful for understanding of the city's Jewish past.

  17. Συλλογή Δικηγόρου Κωνσταντίνου Ζιώγα

    • Collection of the Lawyer Constantinos Ziogas
    • Syllogi Dikigorou Konstantinou Zioga

    Part of the material concerns the case of Jews of Thessaloniki (inheritance issues after the Holocaust).

  18. Αρχείο Δικηγόρου Γεωργίου Μόσχου

    • Archive of the Lawyer Georgios Moschos
    • Archeio dikigorou Georgiou Moschou

    The archive contains approximately 200 bundles. Documents include correspondence with Jews of Serres concerning abandoned properties.

  19. Αρχείο Ειρηνοδικείου Σερρών

    • Archive of the District Court in Serres
    • Archeio Irinodikiou Serron

    Information includes proceedings and decisions of the court, as well as affidavits for Holocaust victims.

  20. Αρχείο Δήμου Σερρών

    • Archive of the Municipality of Serres
    • Archeio Dimou Serron

    It holds historical records of the Municipality of Serres, including vital records, the old municipal rolls (1934), names of Holocaust victims and survivor certificates.