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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Country: Greece

  1. Εβραϊκή Συλλογή

    • Jewish Collection
    • Evraiki Syllogi

    According to the website: "Archive of Jews of Kavala and other regions. It includes: Bulgarian catalogue of the census of Jews of Kavala of 1942 - 1943, before Holocaust. Collected evidence (unbound documents, notes etc) for the Jews of Kavala and other regions of Macedonia and Thrace. Photographic material (synagogue etc)".

  2. Προσωπικό Αρχείο του Εσδρά Μωυσή

    • Personal Archives of Esdras Moisis
    • Prosopiko Archeio tou Esdra Moisi

    Contains Esdras Moissis’s personal archives, which include various records, correspondence, and publications related to the history of the Jewish community of Larissa.

  3. Αρχείο της Υπηρεσίας Διαχείρισης Ισραηλιτικών Περιουσιών

    • Records of the Central Agency for the Custody of Jewish Property
    • Archeio tis Ypiresias Diacheirisis Israilitikon Periousion

    "Contains records of the Central Agency for the Custody of Jewish Property (YDIP) Greece, an agency which regulated the expropriation of Jewish shops and businesses in Greece during the war. Contains case files for individual shops as well as regulatory guidelines and operations procedures for the agency." (USHMM RG-45.005M)

  4. 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...

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  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. 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.

  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 Ισραηλιτικής Κοινότητας Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Archive of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki
    • Archeio Israilitikis Koinotitas Thessalonikis

    The Archive covers the period from the last years of the ottoman administration in the City until the begin of the deportation in spring 1943 (mainly the years 1917-1943). Registration books, records and correspondance of the Jewish Communal Council, the Rabbinical Court, the Commission of Education, other institutions, Salonica Palestine S.A.. The bulk of the material was written in Ladino.

  11. Αρχείο Γιοσέφ Νεχαμά

    • Josheph Nehama Archive
    • Archeio Josheph Nehama

    The Archive consists of manuscripts and unpublished editions of Josheph Nehama’s works.

  12. Αρχείο του δικηγορικού γραφείου Θεοδώρου Σαλγκάμη

    • Theodoros Salgamis Archive
    • Archeio tou dikigorikou grafeiou Theodorou Salagami

    The Archive consists of cases of Jewish clients of the lawyer after the end of World War II, as well as cases of the Bank "Union" and of Joseph Nehama.

  13. Αρχείο Ηλία Μεσσίνα

    • Elias Messinas Archive
    • Archeio Elia Messina

    It contains copies of the research of the architect Elias Messinas, mainly plans of synagogues in Greece. The copies are in paper and digital format.

  14. Αρχείο Οργανισμού Περιθάλψεως και Αποκαταστάσεως Ισραηλιτών Ελλάδος (ΟΠΑΙΕ)

    • Archive of the Organization for the Relief and Rehabilitation of Greek Jews
    • Archeio tou Organizmou Perithalpseos and Apokatastaseos Israiliton Ellados

    The Archive contains copies of approximately 4.105 declarations of property conducted in 1943 by Jews of Thessaloniki. It also contains records of approximately 2000 trustees of Jewish businesses in Thessaloniki during the Occupation.

  15. 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...

  16. Jewish Legacy in Thessaloniki

    The website and the application contain information on the various aspects of the Jewish presence in Thessaloniki, such as religious life and tradition, daily life, economic and financial life, publishing activities, organisations and foundations, maps, the Holocaust and its aftermath. Both the website and the application contain photographs and the exact locations of existing and non existing synagogues, schools and foundations, historical buildings and jewish quarters, markets, and memorial sites. The website and the application also include maps of six suggested walking tours around the ...

  17. Πρακτικά συνεδριάσεων του Δικαστηρίου του εν Θεσσαλονίκη Πρωτοδικείου

    • Proceedings of Minutes of the First Instance Court in Thessaloniki
    • Praktika synedriaseon tou Dikastiriou tou en Thessaloniki Protodikeiou

    Holocaust Survivors claimed property for losses suffered during the Nazi Occupation. The archive contains the Judge rapporteurships and the proceedings.

  18. Αρχείο Πρωτοδικείου Θεσσαλονίκης - Ναζιστικές αποφάσεις

    • Archive of the Court of First Instance in Thessaloniki - Decisions for the Nazi era
    • Archeio Protodikeiou Thessalonikis - Nazistikes apofaseis

    Applications, proceedings, decisions according to the Law 4781/1961 "Agreement between Greece and Germany on the compensation of individuals who suffered damages from National-socialism".

  19. Αρχείο Πρωτοδικείου Θεσσαλονίκης - Κατοχικές Αποφάσεις

    • Archive of the Court of First Instance in Thessaloniki - Decisions for the Period of Occupation
    • Archeio Protodikeiou Thessalonikis - Katohikes Apofaseis

    Proceedings and decisions. During the German occupation (1941-1944) people were forced to sell their property. The Court was asked to re-examine the transactions.

  20. Αρχείο Ειδικού Δικαστηρίου Δωσιλόγων

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

    The material is indictments, case files, judicial decisions regarding the Collaborators of the Nazis in Greece.