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Language of Description: English
Country: Greece

  1. 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.

  2. 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 ...

  3. 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).

  4. 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...

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives

    This collection contains records from the "Jewish Collection-Archives of the History of the Jews in Greece, 1885-1957". Copies of documents taken from various fonds in the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives, mainly from the central political files and the reports from Greek embassies and consulates, to create the "Jewish Collection".

  8. 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...