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Country: Greece

  1. Αρχείο της Κεντρικής Υπηρεσίας, 1941-1946

    • Archive of the Central Administration, 1941-1946
    • Archeio tis Kentrikis Ypiresias, 1941-1946

    Reports on the Greek population and the general conditions under the German, Bulgarian and Italian Occupation. Famine, oppression, deportation of Jews, massacres, executions, political, social, educational measures, the issues of the Jewish properties, Jewish immigration to Palestine.

  2. 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.

  3. Αρχείο της Ιταλικής Αστυνομίας των Καραμπινιέρων

    • Royal Carabinieri Police Archive
    • Archeio tis Italikis Astynomias ton Karabinieron

    The archive contains approx. 80.000 personal files (for 130.000 inhabitants). It contains reports on political events, social and ethnic groups (Greeks, Turks, Jews and other foreigners) and companies, juridical decisions, information on the antifascist activities, the Jewish community, cases related to full Italian citizenship and the special local form of citizenship (Cittadinanza Egea Italiana).

  4. Αρχείο Οργανισμού Περιθάλψεως και Αποκαταστάσεως Ισραηλιτών Ελλάδος (ΟΠΑΙΕ)

    • Archive of the Organization for the Relief and Rehabilitation of Greek Jews
    • Archeio tou Organizmou Perithalpseos and Apokatastaseos Israiliton Ellados

    The Archive contains copies of approximately 4.105 declarations of property conducted in 1943 by Jews of Thessaloniki. It also contains records of approximately 2000 trustees of Jewish businesses in Thessaloniki during the Occupation.

  5. Γερμανικές Αποζημιώσεις

    • German Reparations
    • Germanikes Apozimioseis

    The archive concerns applications related to pensions' allocation pursuant to the West German Federal Indemnification Law (known as the Bundesentschädigungsgesetz, or BEG), the German Reich and Equivalent Legal Entities (Monetary Compensa-tion) Act (BRüG, of 19 July 1957, Federal Law Gazette I, p. 734) and the Greek Law Decree 4178/1961. Apart from these, part of the archival material refers to newer agreements about pensions' allocation. The archive also contains the community's correspondence in relation with its demands and its members' indemnifications.

  6. Αρχείο Πρεσβείας Λονδίνου

    • Archive of the Embassy in London
    • Archeio Presveias Londinou

    The archive covers the Greek-British relations. From 1939 to 1950 the material is related to the period of WWII, the Greek refugees, the famine in occupied Greece, the Greek Red Cross, the war crimes committed by Nazi Germany, Italy and Bulgaria, the National Office for War Crimes, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, the war reparations.

  7. Αρχεία του Κεντρικού Ισραηλιτικού Συμβουλίου της Ελλάδος, 1943-1990

    • Records of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, 1943-1990
    • Archeia tou Kentrikou Israilitikou Symvouliou tis Ellados, 1943-1990

    Consists mainly of files of correspondence between various Greek Jewish communities, with Greek governmental authorities concerning the restitution of the property of Greek Jews, and with international Jewish organizations concerning remembrance. Also included is correspondence with various other, but primarily German, organizations and authorities concerning reparations.

  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. Τράπεζα Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Banque de Salonique
    • Trapeza Thessalonikis

    The "Banque de Salonique" archive consists of records of current accounts, securities, cashier records and customer records, journals, ledgers and files of incoming correspondence, letters of guarantee, cashier and other vouchers.

  10. Αρχείο της Επιχειρηματικής Δραστηριότητας των Εβραίων της Θεσσαλονίκης 1920-1940

    • Archive of the business activities of the Jews in Thessaloniki 1920-1940
    • Archeio tis Epicheirimatikis Drastiriotitas ton Evraion tis Thessalonikis 1920-1940

    It contains information and archival material for thousands of Jewish and mixed sociétés anonymes (S.A.s) and sole proprietorships.

  11. 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.

  12. Αρχείο της Οικογένειας Ααρών και Σαμπετάι Τσιμίνο

    • Archive of the Family of Aron and Sabetai Tsimino
    • Archeio tis Oikogenias Aron kai Sabetai Tsimino

    Family correspondence with survivors from Kavala who migrated to Israel and Argentina, and with organisations and departments of public services in Israel, Greece and Argentina about the Holocaust and issues of compensation in and from Bulgaria.

  13. Αρχείο Γιοσέφ Νεχαμά

    • Josheph Nehama Archive
    • Archeio Josheph Nehama

    The Archive consists of manuscripts and unpublished editions of Josheph Nehama’s works.

  14. Αρχείο Σανατορίου Πηλίου "Η Ζωοδόχος Πηγή" ιατρού Γεωργίου Καραμάνη

    • Archive of the Sanatorium "I Zoodochos Pigi" in Pelion established by Dr. Georgios Karamanis
    • Archeio Sanatoriou Piliou "I Zoodochos Pigi" iatrou Georgiou Karamani

    Patient records, financial records, folder with correspondence between the Sanatorium and the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki (1946-1947). Jewish Holocaust survivors were hosted in the Sanatorium for treatment with the financial assistance from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

  15. 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 ...

  16. Αρχείο Εφημερίδων

    • Newspapers Archive
    • Archeio Efimeridon

    The collection contains the anti-Semitic newspaper "Nea Evropi" (from 15-04-1941 to 22-02-1944), the newspaper "Makedonia" (1940-1941) and a number of the newspaper "Apogevmatini" (1941-1943) newspaper. All were printed in Thessaloniki. One can also find the local Jewish newspapers "L'Ιndépendant" (01-01-1940 to 07-04-1941) and "Le Progrès" (01-03-1940 to 30-12-1940).The collection consists of seven volumes; two volumes for "Nea Evropi", two volumes for "Makedonia", one volume for issues of "Apogevmatini" issues, one volume for "L'Ιndépendant" and one volume for "Le Progrès".

  17. Mapping the childhood

    • Χαρτογραφώντας την παιδική ηλικία

    The "Mapping the Childhood" digital application is the result of a research project (2021) aiming at compiling data on Jewish students in Thessaloniki from the archives of various types of schools (community schools, public and private schools, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki). Information on approximately 3,500 students in total was compiled. The data compiled were integrated into the website, which provides information on the age and time of enrolment of each student, the school and grades they attended, the names of their parents, their...

  18. Αρχείο Πρωτοδικείου Βόλου

    • Archive of the Court of First Instance in Volos
    • Archeio Protodikeiou Volou

    For the period of the early 20th century , there are judicial decisions concerning the financial affairs of the Jews in Volos. For the period of the Second World War, there are decisions concerning trade and economic disputes with Christians. For the postwar period, decisions relating to death certificates (mainly from the period 1946-1950), property looted by the Germans, the case of the Christian shopkeepers who had been affected by fire and claimed Jewish property, decisions on compensation to victims of the Nazi period (1961-1964).

  19. 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.

  20. Αρχείο Πρωτοδικείου Θεσσαλονίκης - Ναζιστικές αποφάσεις

    • Archive of the Court of First Instance in Thessaloniki - Decisions for the Nazi era
    • Archeio Protodikeiou Thessalonikis - Nazistikes apofaseis

    Applications, proceedings, decisions according to the Law 4781/1961 "Agreement between Greece and Germany on the compensation of individuals who suffered damages from National-socialism".