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  1. Bequest Margarethe Weber

    Margarethe, also known as Martha, Weber was born in Leverkusen-Wiesdorf on September 11, 1900. She graduated from the Volksschule on March 31, 1914. Starting in 1939, she worked as a commercial clerk for the I.G. Farben Industry at the plant in Leverkusen. The bequest Margarethe Weber covers personal documents of Margarethe and her family — especially of her younger sister Ilse Weber who also worked for the I.G. Farben. The holding covers numerous documents regarding the I.G. Farben since apart from Margarethe and Ilse Weber other family members also worked there. The bequest Margarethe Web...

  2. Bequest Theo Berger

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Theo Berger from one of Berger's nieces in 2008. Theo Berger was born on January 8, 1925. His parents were Theo Berger senior and Margarete Berger. The family lived in Frankfurt (Main), initially in the district Rödelheim, then after the Second World War shortly in the district Sachsenhausen and later in the district Bornheim. Theo Berger trained to be a precision engineer at Hartmann & Braun AG. In 1942, he was conscripted into the Reich Labor Service. On March 15, 1943, he became a member of the Waffen-SS. He then stayed at the SS case...

  3. Pre-death legacy Jürgen Hess

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the holding from Jürgen Hess himself. Jürgen Hess was a state prosecutor and worked in the political department of the prosecution at Frankfurt (Main) from 1964 to 1996. He was especially concerned with Nazi violent crimes. Representing the prosecution, he conducted numerous proceedings concerning Nazi violent crimes (NSG-Verfahren) at the Landgericht Frankfurt (Main), for example, the fifth and sixth Frankfurt Auschwitz trial against Alois Frey and Willi Rudolf Sawatzki (4 Ks 2/73) and against Josef Schmidt and Horst Czerwinski (50/4 Js 773/70). During hi...

  4. Collection NSDAP Auslandsorganisation Chile

    The NSDAP-Auslandsorganisation Chile was founded in 1931 and existed until 1945. The NSDAP-Auslandsorganisation Chile was one of the foreign organizations of the National Socialist Party, the NSDAP/AO. Citizens of the German Reich living in foreign countries organized themselves in the NSDAP/AO. The organization was especially occupied with the ideological indoctrination of its members. The collection's provenance is unclear. A document accompanying the collection attests that the records were purchased in the region around Valdivia in 1989 or 1990. The previous owner apparently disposed of...

  5. Αρχείο Τράπεζας Ανατολής

    • Orient Bank Archive
    • Archeio Trapezas Anatolis

    Files on financial matters of the Thessaloniki and Monastirion Branches: clearances, current accounts, customer files and correspondence. The Βank had some prominent jewish families of Thessaloniki as clients.

  6. Ιδιωτική Συλλογή Πυθαγόρα Ιερόπουλου

    • Pythagoras Ieropoulos Collection
    • Idiotiki Sillogi Pythagora Ieropoulou

    One (1) book titled "Birth Book of Veria and Surroundings, by the Midwife Agapi Tsitlakidou (1928 to 1955)”. The book contains the names and personal details the names of 60 Jewish women who gave birth in Veria, from 1930 to 1941.

  7. Ιδιωτική Συλλογή Γιώργου Λιόλιου

    • Giorgos Liolios Collection
    • Idiotiki Sillogi Giorgou Lioliou

    The archive consistis of electoral lists for the years 1927-1949 of: Parish of Agios Ioannis, Parish of Agios Antonios, Kyriotissa Parish, Municipality of Veria, Parish of Agios Georgios, of all the parishes. The lists contain names of Jews residing in Veria.

  8. Αρχείο Επιχείρησης Χ. Κοντού και Ε. Μοδιάνο

    • C. Kontou and E. Modiano Business Archive
    • Archio Epicheirisis C. Kontou kai E. Modiano

    3 books, 21 folders with title deeds, 25 folders with documents of the import-export agency of C. Kontou and E. Modiano. The business imports and exports mainly iron and ores from shipwrecks and various other products. There are also 17 folders containing lawsuits, commercial correspondence, invoices, and documents on tax matters of the business of Henri Modiano and Charalambous Kontou.

  9. Αρχείο Α.Ε. Αντιπροσωπειών Ισαάκ Μ. Ασσέο

    • Archive of the Representation Company S.A Isaac Asseo
    • Archeio A.E. Antiprosopeion Isaak M. Asseo

    Commercial correspondence of Isaac M. Asseo Representation Company.

  10. Απονομή τίτλου ιπποσύνης στον Elia Modiano

    • Award of Knighthood to Elia Modiano
    • Aponomi titlou ipposinis ston Elia Modiano

    Document awarding the title of knighthood "Cavaliere del Suo Ordine della Corona d' Italia" to Elia Modiano by the King Victor-Emmanuel of Italy

  11. Αρχείο Ασφαλιστικής Εταιρείας "La Nationale"

    • Archive of Insurance Company "La Nationale"
    • Archeio Asfalistikis Etairias "La Nationale"

    7 folders containing insurance contracts, accounting tables, receipts, circulars, correspondence. 3 folders containing 51 proposals concerning Jewish people. 84 payment documents and payment receipts. About 200 letters and various company documents.

  12. 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...

  13. Αρχείο Ιδιωτικού Σχολείου Αγλαΐας Σχινά

    • Archive of Aglaia Schina's Private School
    • Archeio Idiotikou Scholeiou Aglaias Schina

    Student records containing names of Jewish pupils and other administrative records.

  14. Αρχείο Ιδιωτικού Σχολείου "Άγιος Βικέντιος"

    • Archive of the Private School " Saint Vincent"
    • Archeio Idiotikou Scholeiou "Agios Vikentios"

    Student records containing names of Jewish pupils and other administrative records.

  15. Αρχείο Ιωάννη Σταθάκη

    • Ioannis Stathakis Archive
    • Archeio Ioanni Stathaki

    230 folders with judicial cases of the lawyer Ioannis Stathakis containing also his personal and professional correspondence.

  16. 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).

  17. Αρχείο Τμήματος Δημοτικής Κατάστασης Δήμου Καβάλας

    • Archive of the Municipal Registry of the Municipality of Kavala
    • Archeio Tmimatos Dimotikis Katastasis Dimou Kavalas

    Municipal registers of Kavala, registers of males, correspondence protocol books, register books of births - baptisms, marriages. Contains information about Jewish residents of Kavala

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. Jewish farmers in the Carpathian mountains

    Scenes of Jewish farmers, carpenters, lumbering in the remote Carpathian village of Vysni Apsa. Interior of cheder. CUs of people. Basket making. Various pople pose/work in fields. CUs of orthodox men. Interiors of girls in school. Exteriors of houses. Crossing river. Cattle. Scenes are scattered. Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz, an Orthodox Jewish farmer, tanner, and father of eleven children appears from 12:33:50 to 12:34:11 and 12:35:54 to 12:36:00. He was killed at Auschwitz in 1944. In 1938, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) commissioned Roman Vishniac to make three films...