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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Country: Italy

  1. Fondo Aucii dal 1934 (Attività dell'Unione delle Comunità Israelitiche Italiane dal 1934)

    • Activities of Union of Italian Jewish Communities since 1934

    Very important are the Delasem papers, an organization for the assistance to the refugees; other subjects the documents related to the persecution of italian Jews in the Fascist Era; Racial Laws; Israel; Censuses on population and heritage possessed by Jews.

  2. Prefettura di Napoli, Gabinetto, secondo versamento

    • Naples Police Headquarters, Cabinet, Second Accrual

    Records are related to Jewish refugees, discrimination as a result of racial laws, census of Jews (1938-1943), mixed marriages and marriages to foreigners, and personal files of Jews from the Police Headquarters in Naples. It also contains records about the National Liberation Committee of Naples (Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale di Napoli); 2. Headquarter of Naples, Cabinet, cat. A4a, Jewish Citizens (Questura di Napoli, Gabinetto, cat. A4a, Cittadini di razza ebraica); Naples Police Headquarters, Cabinet, Grand Provisions (Questura di Napoli, Gabinetto, Disposizioni di massima).

  3. Fondo Aucii dal 1948 (Attività dell'Unione delle Comunità Israelitiche Italiane dal 1948)

    • Attività dell'Unione delle Comunità Israelitiche Italiane dal 1948

    Some files, found in the previous collection of Fondo Aucii dal 1934, were inserted in this Fund, for chronological or content reasons. The Registers contain minutes of Council, junta; payment accounts, heredities, Italian Rabbinical College.

  4. Prefettura di Potenza, Gabinetto

    • Potenza Prefecture, Cabinet

    Selected records concerning the discrimination and persecution of Jews in Italy in the district of Potenza, including newspaper clippings from August 1938 on the presence of Jews in all Italian regions following the racial laws

  5. Questura di Potenza, Ebrei

    • Police in Potenza, Jews

    Selected records concerning the discrimination and persecution of Jews in Italy in the community of Potenza, including a census of the Jews and records of the Police headquarters relating to citizens of Jewish origin, and questionnaires concerning the Jewish question sent by the Ministry of Interior on Sep. 21, 1945 to all prefects of the Kingdom of Italy.

  6. Prefettura di Trieste

    • Trieste Prefecture

    This collection contains documents on Italy’s fascist racial laws and their implementation in the city and region of Trieste; a registry of Jews in 1938; lists of Jews deported from Trieste and Adriatic region; and lists of Jewish refugees to Palestine. Documents mention the Risiera di San Sabba transit camp, part of Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland (OZAK), a German-occupied enclave on the Adriatic coast. The records also concern Jewish communities in the coastal provinces of Fiume, Gorizia, Pola, Trieste, and Zara. The records are from two series: the Gabinetto series, on the registr...

  7. Prefettura di Livorno, Gabinetto

    • Livorno Prefecture, Cabinet

    It contains records from the Prefecture of Livorno relating to the racial laws and their implementation in Livorno. Records include a census of Jews of Livorno municipality in 1938 and other records relating to internment in concentration camps, and arrests of Jews.

  8. Questura di Livorno

    • Livorno Police

    The fonds contains series A 13, State of War; Royal Police, later called Police of Livorno, Series A1, A4, A 4b and nominative files.

  9. Archivio Storico del Comune di Orvieto

    • Historical Archives of the Municipality of Orvieto
    • ASCO
    • Archivio Storico Comunale di Orvieto

    Holocaust-relevant material is arranged in four series: - Protocols, 1939: Discrimination of Jews and immigration issues (ASCO, b. 195); - Protocols, 1940: Defence of the breed (ASCO, b.199); - Protocols, 1942: Assessment of breed (ASCO, b. 208); - Protocols, 1944: Assessment of Jewish communities in Orvieto (ASCO, b. 216).

  10. Archivio Storico del Comune di Assisi

    • Historical Archives of the Municipality of Assisi
    • Archivio Storico Comunale di Assisi
    • ASCA

    Holocaust-relevant material is arranged in four series: 1. Requisition of Jews art works, and tracing of foreigners in Italy (ASCA, b. 644); 2. List of displaced persons, Oct. 1-15, 1943 (SASA, ASCA, b. 646); 3. Resolutions of the Podesta: City cemetery matters, 19 February 1944 (SASA, ASCA, reg. 62, 1943-1944); 4. Constitution in Assisi of a subcommittee of the Union of Jewish Communities, August 1, 1944 (SASA, ASCA, b. 390, issue).

  11. Commissariato di pubblica sicurezza di Foligno

    • Foligno Police Station

    Holocaust-relevant material is arranged in three series: 1.Community of Foligno, 1940 (Moderno IV, b. 24); 2. Community of Foligno, 1944 and 1946 (Moderno IV, b. 762); 3. Community of Foligno, 1939-and 1942 (Moderno IV, b. 787).

  12. Prefettura

    • Prefecture

    Holocaust-relevant information about the concentration camps PG70 in Monte Urano and PG59 in Servigliano is arranged inside the fonds "Prefettura" in four series: 1. Campo di concentramento dei prigionieri di guerra; 2. Campo di concentramento dei prigionieri di guerra. Impianto stabilimento industriale. 3. Corrispondenza su campo di concentramento; 4. Corrispondenza su campo di concentramento.

  13. Attività dell'Unione delle Comunità Israelitiche Italiane fino al 1933

    • Activities of Union of Italian Jewish Communities untill 1933
    • AUCII fino al 1933

    The above mentioned series are important since they can document the situation in Europe, the flee of Refugees, the necessity to recover them; beside that, the series "Demografia e Statistica; anagrafe" can be important to know the situation before the census of Jewish population, of immigrant population, and the total amount of italian and foreign Jews before the 1938 racial laws

  14. Catecumeno

    The Opera Pia del Catecumeno offered help to baptised Jews and Jews converted to Catholicism.

  15. Archivio della Commissione d'inchiesta per i criminali di guerra italiani secondo alcuni stati esteri

    • Archives of the Inquiry Commission on Italian War Criminals according to Foreign Countries

    A certificate delivered by the head of the Jewish community of Nice to the director of the Italian civil police during the Italian occupation can be found inside the file n.118, sub-file n.1.

  16. Corte di Appello di Trieste

    • Triest Court of Appeals

    Contains various records concerning the legal discrimination against and expulsion of Jews from various professions in Trieste and the Adriatic coast during the war. It also contains postwar court records concerning the restitution of expropriated Jewish property.

  17. Gabinetto della Questura di Venezia

    • Cabinet of the Venice Police Direction

    Contains personal files about criminals and dangerous elements.

  18. Gabinetto della Prefettura di Venezia

    Contains acts and files produced by the cabinet of the prefetto concerning public security in the province of Venice.

  19. Rapporto generale della commissione per la ricostruzione delle vicende che hanno caratterizzato in Italia le attività di acquisizione dei beni dei cittadini ebrei da parte di organismi pubblici e privati

    • Anselmi Commission on Jewish Properties - General Report
    • Rapporto Generale della Commissione Anselmi sui Beni Ebraici
    • General report by the commission aiming to study the acquisition of Jewish citizens' goods by private and public bodies in Italy

    The general report, available both in Italian and in English, traces spoliation, confiscation, depredation liquidation and post-war restitution of Jewish citizens' properties. The cooperation by several banks and the Banca d'Italia is described.

  20. Repubblica Sociale Italiana

    • Italian Social Republic

    The fonds contains records created by the Ministry of Military Forces, the Army General Staff, the Supreme Military Court of Justice of the Italian Social Republic. Several files concern internment camps in Italy and in Germany, repatriation of war prisoners, dead prisoners.