Archival Descriptions

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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: French
Language of Description: Croatian
Country: Croatia
  1. Njemačka narodna zajednica u nezaviznoj državi Hrvatskoj

    • The German National Community in the Independent State of Croatia

    The German National Community in the Independent State of Croatia [Deutsche Volksgruppe im Unabhängigen Staat Kroatien] was founded in April 1941. Under Branimir Altgayer, it claimed to represent the interests of all ethnic Germans in Croatia. The activities of the German National Community were mainly concentrated in the regions of Syrmia, Baranya, and Slavonia, even though its representatives were also active across the Independent State of Croatia. The archival collection covers various materials related to military, economy (box 22, 48-60), education (box 30-32), health (box 33), cultur...

  2. Okružni sud u Osijeku

    • District Court of Osijek

    The district court of Osijek was founded in 1945 and was involved in the trials of Holocaust and genocide perpetrators after the war. Boxes 46-117 deal with such criminal offenses. The files inside the boxes usually include the indictment, summary of the trial, and perpetrator and victim testimonies given just before or during the trial. Due to the changing legal context in postwar-Yugoslavia, some perpetrators gave their testimonies multiple times over the course of several years. Therefore, this material is helpful to researchers focusing on the (re)construction of memory and narratives a...

  3. Gradsko poglavarstvo grada Križevci

    • The City Authorities of Križevci

    The collection is incomplete and contains various instructions and orders issued and received by the city authorities of Križevci. Researchers of the Holocaust will find files regarding the activities of the State Office for Renewal [Državno Ravnateljstvo za ponovu] here. This office oversaw the managing and distributing of property confiscated from Jews during the Holocaust. In addition, for scholars interested in perpetrator studies the files of the city employees are a potentially helpful source.

  4. 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...

  5. Velika Župa Bilogora

    • The Great Governorate of Bilogora

    Velika Župa, or the Great Governorate of Bilogora, was established in August 1941. As one of the 22 Great Governorates across the Independent State of Croatia, it was the highest regional authority directly responsible to the Ustasha-led government. Velika Župa Bilogora is composed of seven counties: Bjelovar, Križevci, Koprivnica, Đurđevac, Čazma, Grubišno Polje and Garešnica. The first part of the archival collection of Velika Župa Bilogora (boxes 1-7 and books 1-2) is mainly concerned with the orders from the top which it received from various state ministries. However, the fond also con...

  6. Stjepan (Esteban) Hefer, odvjetnik, političar, veliki župan župe Baranjske

    • Stjepan (Esteban) Hefer lawyer, politician, head of the ISC Baranya County

    The collection holds material relevant to the life and work of Stjepan Hefer, a lawyer and politician who was the head of Baranya County during the Independent State of Croatia. After the war, Hefer emigrated to Argentina to escape execution/trial in socialist Yugoslavia. In Argentina, he ran the Croatian Liberation Movement until his death. During the Second World War, Stjepan Hefer was the leader of the Velika Župa Baranja, one of the highest regional authorities in the northeast of the Independent State of Croatia. Considering that the collection of the Velika Župa Baranja is very fragme...

  7. Javno tužilaštvo Socijalističke Republike Hrvatske

    • The State Attorney office of the Socialist Republic of Croatia

    The Public Prosecutor's Office was established in 1945. The Law on the Public Prosecutor's Office was adopted after the promulgation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946, and the Public Prosecutor's Office of PRC acted as an organ of public prosecution in the country. Collection holds 9 boxes of the Indictment Ante Pavelic-Andrija Artuković, from 1951 for their extradition. Besides the text of the statutory provisions of the ISC there is evidence, testimony and statements of surviving camp inmates, lists of interned and murdered Jews, etc. Researchers of the Hol...

  8. Zbirka matičnih knjiga s područja nadležnosti Državnog arhiva u Zagrebu

    • Collection of registers books from the jurisdiction of the State Archives of the city of Zagreb
    • Državni arhiv u Zagrebu
    • HR-DAZG-870 Zbirka matičnih knjiga s područja nadležnosti Državnog arhiva u Zagrebu
    • English
    • 1677-1949
  9. Redarstvena oblast za grad Zagreb

    • Police District of the City of Zagreb
  10. Matica u ratu palih - Jevreji umrli na frontu

    • The Index of Fallen in the War – Jews killed in War
  11. Odvjetnička pisarnica Licht Aleksander

    • Law Office of Aleksander Licht
    • Državni arhiv u Zagrebu
    • HR-DAZG-96 Odvjetnička pisarnica Licht Aleksander
    • English
    • 1913-1941
    • 65 boxes, 1 book

    The collection contains documentation concerning legal representation in property disputes and disputes of journalists in the publishing and film industries, as well as documentation about the Zionist movement in Croatia and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Dr. Aleksandar Licht (1884−1948) was a Croatian Zionist leader and founder of the Zionist movement in Croatia. Licht was born in the village of Sokolovac, near Koprivnica, to a Croatian Jewish family. As a child he moved with his family to Zagreb. Licht was educated in Zagreb, where he finished elementary and high school. He earned a law degre...

  12. Dobrotvorno društvo "Prehrana" Zagreb

    • The Jewish charity society "Prehrana" in Zagreb

    Founded by Šandor Alexander pl. Sesvetski (April 5, 1866 – December 17, 1929), a Croatian nobleman, industrialist, and philanthropist; he was the younger brother of Samuel David Alexander and a member of the prominent Alexander family of Zagreb.

  13. Gradsko poglavarstvo Zagreb

    • City Administration of Zagreb

    757 books, 2450 boxes. (316.3 m)

  14. Okružni sud u Šibeniku

    • County Court in Šibenik

    The collection provides insight into individual documents that testify to the Jewish presence in the town of Šibenik, and its legal provenance.

  15. Okružni narodni odbor Šibenik

    • People's County Committee of Šibenik

    The local people's committees were established as district national liberation committees during 1943 and 1944. They represented the state administration bodies and local self-government and were responsible for establishment and provision of government services in administrative areas. This administration included various departments, e.g., for legal matters (formation of people's courts), education, social affairs, the economy, trade and commerce, technical matters, etc. They ended during 1946, in accordance with the new territorial and administrative changes.

  16. Pomirbeni sud u Šibeniku

    • Small Claims Court in Šibenik
    • Giudizio di Pace Sebenico

    Conciliation courts (or small claims court), established during the Austrian rule, were courts of civil and criminal cases in a specific geographical area. They were closed by 1820. The collection provides insight into individual documents that testify to the Jewish presence in the town of Sibenik, and its legal provenance.

  17. Kotarsko poglavarstvo of Šibenik

    • County Administration Šibenik

    On 8 September 1943, Italy capitulated and the Independent State of Croatia officially recognized the Rome contracts, along with the Treaty of Rapallo of 1920, which had given Italy the territories of Istria, Fiume (now Rijeka), and Zara (Zadar). German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop approved of the NDH taking the Dalmatian territories gained by Italy at the time of the Rome contracts. By now, most of this territory was controlled by the Yugoslav Partisans, since the cession of those areas had made them strongly anti-NDH (more than one third of the total population of Split, for in...

  18. Kotarsko poglavarstvo/ Gradsko poglavarstvo Šibenik

    • County Administration of Šibenik, Independent State of Croatia

    The Independent State of Croatia introduced racial laws and anti-Semitic policies as a prerequisite for Axis support. Thus, the administrational collections from the 194–1945 period are invaluable for Holocaust research concerning Croatia.

  19. Kotarska oblast (Sresko načelstvo) Šibenik

    • County Administration Šibenik

    The (pro-fascist) Independent State of Croatia was proclaimed in April, 1941, and parts of Dalmatia shortly afterwards fell under the jurisdiction of Italy. The collection gives an introduction to the administrational and legal process for curtailing rights of specific groups in the society, including of Jews.

  20. Općinsko upraviteljstvo/ Kotarsko poglavarstvo Šibenik

    • Municipality Administration Šibenik

    Although predating the interwar period, there are a few valuable collections that refer to the (small) Šibenik Jewish community and Jewish individuals, including this one, which concerns permits, registries, etc.