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Language of Description: English
Country: Greece

  1. Αρχείο Πρωτοδικείου Ξάνθης

    • Archive of the Court of First Instance in Xanthi
    • Archeio Protodikeiou Xanthis

    The files are relevant to the Bulgarian occupation, war crimes, Greek collaborators, war trials and Bulgarian reparations.

  2. Αρχείο Πρωτοδικείου Χαλκίδας - Ειδικού Δικαστηρίου Δωσιλόγων

    • Archives of the Court of First Instance in Halkida - Special Court of Collaborators
    • Archeio Protodikeiou Halkidas - Eidikou Dikastiriou Dosilogon

    Books and files relevant to war trials and collaborators. A number of these cases are relevant to the Jews of Halkida.

  3. Αρχείο Γερμανικής Στρατιωτικής Διοικήσεως Κρήτης

    • Archive of the German Military Administration in Crete
    • Archeio Germanikis Stratiotikis Dioikiseos Kritis

    It consists of material relevant to the German administration in Crete, the correspondence with the local civil authorities. It also includes the list of the Jews deported by the Nazis in 1944.

  4. Αρχείο Πρεσβείας Καϊρου

    • Archive of the Embassy in Cairo
    • Archeio Presveias Kairou

    The archive contains documents related to the diplomatic, political and financial affairs between Greece and Khedivate of Egypt and later the State of Egypt form the end of the 19th century until the end of the 20th century, the situation of the large Greek communities in the country. The files related to the Holocaust covers the period from 1937 to 1961. The relevant topics are the situation of the Greek Jews in Greece and Egypt, the German compensations to the Holocaust victims.

  5. Αρχείο Νίκου Νικολάου

    • Archive of Nikos Nikolaou
    • Archeio Nikou Nikolaou

    It contains unpublished and published sources about the Jews of Serres. The most important source is the “Old Municipal Registries of Jews” which constitutes the official book of the municipal archive and which ended in the possession of Nikolaou.

  6. Αρχείο της Ιστορίας των Ελλήνων Εβραίων

    • Archive of the History of the Greek Jews
    • Archeio tis Istorias ton Ellinon Evraion

    The collection consists of documents related to the history of the Jews in Greece, the State policy towards the Jews, the situation of the Jews in Greece and the Balkan States as the Greek State was expanded from the end of the 19th century to the mid of the 20th century. It covers the Nazi-era and topics as the situation of the Greek Jews who lived in other countries, as Romania, the antisemitic measures taken by the German authorities, the deportations of the Jews in German and Bulgarian occupied zone, the case of the Jews in Dodecanese, the issue of the Italian Jews who lived in Greece, ...

  7. Διεύθυνση Διαφάνειας και Εξυπηρέτησης του Δήμου Θεσσαλονίκης- Τμήμα Ληξιαρχείου

    • Division of Transparency and Service of the Municipality of Thessaloniki - Registry Office
    • Diefthynsi Diafaneias kai Exypiretisis tou Dimou Thessalonikis - Tmima Lixiarcheiou

    The archive has complete series of volumes from 1915 to 2014 (only a few volumes are available for the first year). The material contains information on births, marriages, and deaths of Jews in Thessaloniki before, during and after the Second World War.

  8. Διεύθυνση Διαφάνειας και Εξυπηρέτησης Δημοτών του Δήμου Θεσσαλονίκης- Τμήμα Δημοτολογίων

    • Division of Transparency and Civil Service of the Municipality of Thessaloniki - Civil Registry Office
    • Diefthynsi Diafaneias kai Exypiretisis Dimoton tou Dimou Thessalonikis - Tmima Dimotologion

    The archive contains 50 books with the names of girls who were born in Thessaloniki from 1896 to 1950; 144 books with the names of boys who were born in Thessaloniki from 1832 until today (the first decades have few names); and unknown number of books with the names of people who were born in Thessaloniki from 1931 to 2000. Data include name, surname, place and date of birth, the decision of the registry and the act of erasing.

  9. Πρακτικά και αποφάσεις του Δημοτικού Συμβουλίου του Δήμου Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Proceedings and Decisions of the Municipal Council of the Municipality of Thessaloniki
    • Praktika kai Apofaseis tou Dimotikou Symvouliou tou Dimou Thessalonikis

    The material contains information on issues related to municipal administration, finance, taxes and fees, assets and foundations; public works; healthcare; youth; culture; social services; religious minorities; disabled people; disadvantaged groups.

  10. Thessaloniki Jewish Community Records

    The collection (1939-1945; bulk 1943) contains registration records for over 13,000 Jews of Thessaloniki that were completed prior to their deportation to Auschwitz. The cards contain personal information as well as itemized lists of real and material property subsequently Aryanized by occupying forces and Greek collaborators.

  11. Η Εμπειρία των Εβραίων της Ελλάδας στις οπτικο-ακουστικές Μαρτυρίες

    • Database of Greek-Jewish Holocaust Survivors' Testimonies
    • I Empeiria ton Evraion tis Elladas stis optiko-akoustikes Martyries

    The database contains more than 800 pieces of evidence which were collected at different times and in different languages and places: Greece. elsewhere in Europe, the United States, and Israel.The ambition is that the database will be a tool which will facilitate scholars in locating and accessing the material.

  12. 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 ...

  13. Yale Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

    The Fortunoff Archive consists of testimonies of willing individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, including those who were in hiding, survivors, bystanders, resistants, and liberators. Testimonies were recorded in whatever language the witness preferred, and range in length from 30 minutes to over 40 hours (recorded over several sessions).

  14. 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...

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. Αρχείο Μακεδονικής Διοίκησης

    • Archive of Macedonian Administration
    • Archeio Makedonikes Dioikeses

    The Archive consists of public administrative documents, mainly concerning the region of Central Macedonia, Greece. There are plenty of verdicts by local courts, citizen’s applications as well as administrative correspondence between the local authorities. Related to the Holocaust of Greek Jews is a report made by the Prefecture of Kozani (Central Macedonia region, Greece) on 9/2/1944, referring to Greek prisoners. Among others there are two Jewish names: Algava Bension (Αλγκαβα Μπενσιόν) from Thessaloniki and Zach Abraham (Ζακ Αβραάμ) from Volos.

  18. Αρχείο του Εμπορικού και Βιομηχανικού Επιμελητηρίου Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Archive of the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry
    • Archeio tou Emborikou kai Viomechanikou Epimeleteriou Thessalonikes

    The archive consists of listing of companies and businesses that have been established in the city of Thessaloniki since 1919. From 1992 and onwards, the registration is digital. Its physical form which is handwritten is divided into three periods: i. 1919 - 1935 (58 inventory books) ii. 1935 - 1970 (46 inventory books with approximately 12,000 entries) iii. 1970 -1990 Greek Jewish activity consists of a significant part of the archive, when in March 1943, all Jewish businesses were banished, under the orders of the Supreme Military Governor of the North Aegean.

  19. Αρχείο Βιοτεχνικού Επιμελητηρίου Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Archive of the Thessaloniki Chamber of Handicrafts
    • Archeio Viotechnikou Epimeleteriou Thessalonikes

    In 1925, the Chamber of Trade and Manufacture was established in Thessaloniki. In 1940, under the 2429/1940 law of the Greek state, it was divided in two separate organi-zations and the Thessaloniki Chamber of Handicrafts (TCH) was created. Since then, TCH has the obligation to register any handcrafting activity inside the city of Thessaloniki. In its eighty-five years of continuous operation, TCH was associated with all the major economic events of the country, providing a thorough view of the handicraft activity of the city through time.

  20. Αρχείο Επαγγελματικού Επιμελητηρίου Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Archive of the Chamber of Tradesmen in Thessaloniki
    • Archeio Epaggelmatikou Epimellitiriou Thessalonikis

    The Archive of the TCT documents the commercial and retail activity in Thessaloniki. It consists of registration lists of tradesmen that have been active in the city since 1940. It is accessible only by the members of TCT as well as by authorized researchers. Various entries of Jewish activity can be found. The archive is under digitization process. The archive is accessible for research as material evidence of the multicultural history of Thessaloniki before the second world war.