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  1. Αρχείο 8ου Δημοτικού Σχολείου Λάρισας

    • 8th Public Elementary School of Larissa

    Since 1931 there has been a Jewish school in Larissa which was founded and operates under a special Law of the Greek State as a Public School, under the title: "8th Primary School of Larissa (Jewish). The archive of the 8th Primary School of Larissa covers the years 1944 - 1997 and consists of books and folders with various documents produced during the daily operation of the school.

  2. Mestský národný výbor v Rožňave

    • City National Committee of Rožňava

    The agenda of the City National Committee of Rožňava holds records of the city administration in the period between 1945 and 1990. A specific segment of the archival collections preserves archival materials related to the immediate post-WWII period when Holocaust survivors were returning from the concentration camps and were trying to get back their confiscated real estate and movable property. The collection contains many applications and requests of different types for the recovery of their taken property (apartment, house, furniture, shops, household, other movable property items, etc.)....

  3. Štátne občianstvá a domovské príslušnosti

    • Citizenships and domicile rights

    It is an artificially created collection of materials which consists of documents extracted from 4 archival fonds. It contains the personal documents of about 5,500 residents of Košice - including many Jews - from the period between 1909 and 1944. These files concern their citizenship and their domicile right (domovská príslušnosť in Slovak, községi illetőség in Hungarian). The documents created between 1938 and 1944 are preserved in about 40 boxes. These mostly contain files of approximately 1300 people, including residents of Jewish religion. Each file contains a large amount of personal ...

  4. Matričný úrad Rabínstva židovskej náboženskej obce v Košiciach

    • The Registry Office of the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Religious Community of Košice

    The collection contains documents from the Registry Office of the Chief Rabbi of Košice, divided into 24 boxes. Materials regarding the period between 1938 and 1944 are in the last three boxes. Mainly, the registers of the Orthodox Jewish religious community were preserved in the collection, as well as documents regarding the wartime activity of Márk Eckstein, the Status you ante chief rabbi of Košice. In addition, the collection preserves also the petitions of Jewish residents born in Košice who contacted the religious community during WWII regarding passport or citizenship issues or becau...

  5. Národný výbor mesta Košíce

    • National Committee of the city of Košice

    The national committee agenda contains archival materials of the city administration from the immediate post-WWII years between the end of the Hungarian Arrow-Cross terror in January 1945 and the communist coup d’état in Czechoslovakia in February 1948. The fond reflects several aspects of Košice’s postwar political, social, and economic development and everyday life, and as such it preserves also materials concerning Jewish life after the war in Košice and its surroundings. In the fond researchers can find the personal file of dozens of Holocaust survivors returning from the concentration ...

  7. Halmi z Košíc

    • The Halmi family from Košice

    The collection is based on the legacy of one of the Halmi (Hennefeld) family from Košice in the period between 1867 and 1945. The documents that were preserved in the legacy are connected mainly to the personal files of four brothers, Félix, Jenő, Pál and Béla Halmi, and their sister, Piroska who were active in the political, social and cultural life of Košice. Many of the documents belonging to the family legacy concerns the life and survival strategies of the familiy after the first Vienna Award in 1938 and during the holocaust. Among these materials are also their requests for exceptions...

  8. Hlavnoslužnovský úrad v Rožňave 1939 – 1944

    • Chief Constable's Office of the Rožňava District
    • Főszolgabírói Hivatal Rozsnyó

    The collection of materials contains the administrative files that concern the political, economic, and social life in the villages that belonged to the office between 1939 – 1944. The persecution of the Jewish population is documented in the major part of the collection. These documents concern the Anti-Jewish agenda and the situation of the Jewish population in the territory of the district. The collection includes the documents of the liquidation of Jewish associations and citizenship application of Jewish inhabitants. One might can find here the preserved files concerning the activity o...

  9. Župné mesto Rožňava

    • Rozsnyó megyei város
    • Rožňava City with County rights

    The collection holds the records of the Rožňava city administration between 1939 and 1944/45. It contains various files which document the anti-Jewish measures, the ghettoization and the deportation of Jews of Rožňava, as well as the Aryanization of their real estate property and their values. Researchers might find in the collection the personal files of Jewish inhabitants who applied for an exception or their applications for certificates of state affiliation, their requests for religious changes, as well as more documents concerning their trade permits. Most of these requests were reject...

  10. Notársky úrad v Jelšave

    • Notary Office of Jelšava

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Jelšava holds records of the local administration in the period between 1939 and 1944, including materials on the Anti-Jewish measures, the persecution of Jews, and the Aryanization of Jewish property in 1944. The archival collection contains the minutes of the city council of Jelšava from the years 1939 – 1944, in which various documents regarding the Anti-Jewish measures have been preserved. For example, one might find here the measure in which Jews were forbidden to sell their goods on the local markets or various files concerning citizenship ...

  11. Okresné živnostenské spoločenstvo v Košiciach

    • Kassai Járási Vegyes Ipartársulat
    • Tradesmen Association of the Košice District

    The archival collection of the Tradesmen Association of the Košice District contains important documents regarding the situation of Jewish industrialists and tradesmen that inhabited the localities of the surroundings of Košice. It holds records from the interwar period and the years of Jewish persecution during WWII. A total of 14 boxes - which represents the half of the whole collection - are related to the wartime period. The collection records preserve several register books and the list of the association members too. In these books one might find the detailed professional biographies ...

  12. Abovsko-turnianska župa II.

    • Abov-Turňa County II.

    The fonds contains archival materials from the whole territory of Abov-Turňa County. It preserves documents on the various forms of anti-Jewish measures and persecution of the Jewish population taking place in the countryside the the Abov-Turňa County. These documents concern mainly the property of the Jewish population and the aryanization of the property of Jewish tradesmen.

  13. Okresné živnostenské spoločenstvo vo Veľkých Kapušanoch

    • Nagykaposi Járási Ipartársulat
    • Tradesmen Association of the Veľké Kapušany District

    The archival collection of the Tradesmen Association of the Veľké Kapušany District contains materials regarding Jewish industrialists and tradesmen who inhabited Veľké Kapušany and the localities of the Veľké Kapušany District. Two boxes of the collection are related to the wartime period, including various documents on anti-Jewish persecution, anti-Jewish regulations, and the situation of Jewish members of the association. The collection records preserve register books and the list of the association members too. (In 1940, the association had 281 members, of which 110 were from Veľké Kapu...

  14. Obecný notársky úrad v Lelese

    • Notary Office of Leles

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Leles holds records of the local administration in the period between 1882 and 1944, including materials on anti-Jewish measures, the persecution of Jews, and the Aryanization of Jewish property during World War II. Most of the documents concern the municipality of Leles, but also its two neighboring villages, Poľany and Soľnička. Most of the collection’s materials concerning anti-Jewish measures, the deportation of the local Jewry of Leles, Poľany, and Soľnička, as well as the Aryanization of their property can be found in boxes n. 16 – 23. These archival...

  15. Živnostenské spoločenstvo v Košiciach

    • Tradesmen Association of Košice

    The collection preserves the documentation of one of the largest local associations of Košice in the period between 1872 - 1952. As far as Holocaust research is concerned, the collection contains detailed information regarding the situation of Jewish industrialists and tradesmen from the period between 1939 and 1944. One might find here various archival materials documenting the anti-Semitism of the population of contemporary Košice (for example in the form of complaints against Jewish industrialists), as well as archival files about the Aryanization of the property of Jewish tradesmen. The...

  16. Zemplínska župa II. Okupované územie

    • Zemplín County II. Occupied territory

    The fonds contains archival materials from the territory of historical Zemplín County which was annexed by the Hungarian Kingdom in 1938. It documents the anti-Jewish measures and various forms of persecution of the Jewish population taking place in the period between 1939 and 1944. These documents concern mainly the property of Jewish population, applications for citizenships and the arization of Jewish property.

  17. Arie van Mansum fonds

    • Ottawa Jewish Archives
    • I0022
    • English
    • 1940-2007
    • 21cm of textual records, 17 photographs 1 box in OS

    Fonds consists of textual records, photographs, and ephemera. Series include Arie Van Mansum's experiences during WWII, his postwar experiences, personal accounts, correspondence, Margaretha Van Mansum, pamphlets, the Dutch Undeground movement, and Canada. Fonds also contains a framed certificate from The Jewish Community Council of Ottawa to Arie van Mansum stating the establishment of the Arie van Mansum Holocaust Education Resource Project - 1991; a framed certificate in French and Hebrew, presented to Arie van Mansum by La Commission des Justes (Commission of the Righteous) in Jerusalem...

  18. Mendel Good fonds

    • Ottawa Jewish Archives
    • I0167
    • English
    • 1978-1998
    • 0.21 cm of textual records and related material vault

    Fonds consists of personal files; 8 colour photographs, 1 artifact; 1 videocassette - File 1 - Holocaust Memorial Observance. Includes speeches - 1978, 1982, 1986; program from Holocaust Memorial Observance - 1982; program from Tribute to Arie van Mansum - 1991; 1 blank Yad Vashem Testimony form; File 2 - Canadian Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Children, Ottawa Congress Centre. Includes correspondence, program, speeches, and related ephemera - 1984-1986; File 3 - Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation - 1992-1993; File 4 - St. Augustine's ...

  19. United Kosher Meat & Deli fonds

    Fonds consists of two payment ledgers, 1988-1992, Ottawa Vaad Hakashrut licenses, 1994-1999, blank invoice books, list of bakery items.

  20. Elly Bollegraaf fonds

    Fonds consists of two parliamentary letters from MPP Naqvi and Preimer McGuinty; a photo album of photos from the "A Coat of Many Colours" exhibit; a photo album of photos from the first international gathering of children hidden during the Second World War, 1991; a photo album of photos of "The Courage to Remember" exhibit 1991; a photo album of photos from the Leo Haas "Visual Memory" exhibit; 3 packets of photographs; a card sent to Elly from Anna Heilman, an Auschwitz survivor