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  1. 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.)....

  2. KOTARSKI SUD (Sreski sud) SUD U NOVOJ GRADIŠKI

    • County court in Nova Gradiška

  3. Zbierka spomienok o represáliách, perzekúciách, rasovom prenasledovaní a obetiach na Slovensku v rokoch 1938 – 1945

    • Collection of Memories of Reprisals, Persecutions, Racial Persecution and Victims in Slovakia in Years 1938 – 1945

    Among numerous written memories of radical and mass reprisals mostly from the period 1944 – 1945, this collection contains also various testimonies of the Holocaust survivors who were facing the mass persecution during and even after the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising by German Army forces, POHG, anti-fascist unit Edelweiss, etc. Significant attention is paid the to mass executions in Kremnička (November 5, 1944 – March 8, 1945), where more approximately 747 people were murdered, various memories are addressing the plundering and burning the villages of Kalište (March 18, 1945)...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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...

  6. KOTARSKI SUD U NOVOJ GRADIŠKI

    • The Independent State of Croatia Court in Nova Gradiska

  7. Zbierka XV. Letáky, plagáty

    • Collection XV. Leaflets, Posters

    Collection is created by various visual materials such as leaflets and posters referring to the official propaganda of the Slovak state as well as the anti-fascist propaganda which was intensively spread and circulated especially during the Slovak National Uprising in autumn 1944. In particular, 17 items are Holocaust-related and they are mainly pertaining the official anti-Semitic policy of Hlinkova slovenská ľudová strana (HSĽS).

  8. Okresné živnostenské spoločenstvo v Rožňave 1884 - 1952

    • Tradesmen Association of the Rožňava District 1884 - 1952
    • Rozsnyói Járási Ipartársulat

    The archival collection of the Tradesmen Association of the Rožňava District contains materials regarding Jewish industrialists and tradesmen who inhabited mainly Rožňava and other localities of the Rožňava District. Seven boxes of the collection are related to the period between 1938 and 1944, including various documents on anti-Jewish persecution and the Aryanization of Jewis property. The collection records preserve documents regarding the the abolition of Jewish business certificate in 1939 and 1940, as well as archival sources concerning the fate of companies or factories that were pre...

  9. 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 ...

  10. Notársky úrad v Jablonove nad Turňou 1939 - 1944

    • Notary Office of Jablonov nad Turňou 1939 - 1944
    • Szádalmási Körjegyzőség 1939 - 1944

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Jablonov nad Turňou holds records of the local administration in the period between 1939 and 1944, including various archival sources on the Anti-Jewish measures, the persecution of Jews, and the Aryanization of Jewish property in the territory of ňAbov-Turňa County in 1944. Most of the documents on Anti-Jewish persecution might be found in the boxes n. 15 - 18. As for these files, one might find here inventories of closed Jewish artifacts, lists of apartments owned by Jews until April 1944 in Jablonov nad Turňou, and documents regarding the property left ...

  11. Zbierka XII: Dokumenty memoárového charakteru

    • Collection XII: Memoir documents

    The collection contains primarily memories of the period 1938 - 1945, with most of the documents dating from 1944 when the Slovak National Uprising broke out in Slovakia. The memories of the uprising come from direct participants and from the secondary sources. The collection contains not only memories of the battles but also of the atrocities perpetrated against the civilian population by the forces of Nazi Germany and the forces of the wartime Slovak state and Hlinka's Slovak People's Party. Another part of the collection are testimonies concerning the prisoners in concentration camps. Th...

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. Kemény István Collection

    The collection includes around two dozen interviews in which the Roma genocide is mentioned. The collection, which consists of 283 documents, is about the research that was done on the Roma communities in 1971. Most of the documents are transcriptions of interviews, but the collection includes some studies too. The interviews are based on discussions which were recorded on tape and later transcribed. When the participants in the project typed the material, their aim was to remain as faithful as possible to the original interviews, so the texts give one the impression of hearing the people s...

  17. Szilágyi-Pető Collection

    In 2011, 35 interview transcripts were deposited at the 20th Század Hangja Archive and Research Group. These include ten family group discussions, sometimes with two to four people, and several individual interviews recorded independently, i.e. without the involvement of other family members. The total length of the existing transcripts is approx. 1,800 typed pages. In the conversations, family stories are told, usually starting from the parents' youth to the time of the interview, focusing on the war and the Holocaust. In almost all cases, the interviewee's various illnesses are discussed ...

  18. Ferenc Erős Collection

    The interview transcripts and the related personal data sheets were given to the Voices of the 20th Century Archive and Research Group by Ferenc Erős and András Kovács in 2012. The physical files are kept in the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA). The audio recordings have been lost.

  19. Autobiographical texts and documents in the archive of the Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft (TKG)

    Memoirs, memories and life history records by Paula Arnold, Margit Bartfeld-Feller, Bridget Bogard, Daisy Davidow-Bermann, Jolan Dehner, Bruno Frei, Peter Freund, Josef Friedler, Hans Friedmann, Alfred Frisch, Carry Hauser, Karl-Hans Heinz, Ferdinand Kaiser, Leo Katz, Valentin Pollak, Hans Schauder, Robert Schwarz, Willi Sheridan,Irene Spiegel, Gerda Spiegler and Walter Stein; Biographies of Heinz Carwin, Otto Koenig, Josef Luitpold Stern, Isa Strasser; Sketches by Tamar Radzyner; Radio scripts by Willy Miksch; Letters by Fred Bondi, Fritz Brügel, Walter Fischer, Therese Harpner, Gerda Hoff...

  20. Oral history - The National Center for Roma Culture

    The collection includes about 60 oral history interviews which relate to the Roma deportations to Transnistria. Between 2007 and 2019, various Roma activists, such as Delia Grigore and Adrian Furtuna, interviewed about 60 Roma survivors of deportations in Transnistria. The interviews were conducted as part of various projects and under the umbrella of several Roma organizations. Most of the interviews were conducted by the "Romane Rodimata" and Amare Romentza (two Roma NGOs based in Bucharest). However, in recent years the activity of the National Center for Roma Culture (CNCR) has become m...