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    <eadid>gr-002729-jmg_01</eadid>
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      <titlestmt>
        <titleproper>Αρχείο της Ισραηλιτικής Κοινότητας Πατρών</titleproper>
      </titlestmt>
      <publicationstmt>
        <publisher>Εβραϊκό Μουσείο Ελλάδος</publisher>
        <address>
          <addressline>Nikis 39</addressline>
          <addressline>10557</addressline>
          <addressline>Athens</addressline>
          <addressline>GR</addressline>
          <addressline>+30210 32 25 582</addressline>
          <addressline>+30210 32 31 577</addressline>
          <addressline>http://www.jewishmuseum.gr</addressline>
          <addressline>info@jewishmuseum.gr</addressline>
          <addressline>Greece</addressline>
        </address>
      </publicationstmt>
    </filedesc>
    <profiledesc>
      <creation>This file was exported automatically from the EHRI database administration tool and represents a work-in-progress.
        <date normal="20210102">2021-01-02T19:59:59.500Z</date>
      </creation>
      <langusage>
        <language langcode="eng">English</language>
      </langusage>
    </profiledesc>
  </eadheader>
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    <did>
      <unitid>JMG.01</unitid>
      <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Αρχείο της Ισραηλιτικής Κοινότητας Πατρών</unittitle>
      <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Five archival boxes </physdesc>
      <langmaterial>
        <language langcode="eng" encodinganalog="3.4.3">English</language>
        <language langcode="fra" encodinganalog="3.4.3">French</language>
        <language langcode="ell" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Greek</language>
        <language langcode="heb" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Hebrew</language>
      </langmaterial>
      <repository>
        <corpname>Εβραϊκό Μουσείο Ελλάδος</corpname>
      </repository>
    </did>
    <processinfo encodinganalog="3.7.1">
      <p><![CDATA[English description is written by V. Ritzaleos.]]></p>
    </processinfo>
    <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
      <p><![CDATA["Consists of correspondence files concerning the postwar activities of the Jewish community of Patras. Topics include restitution, commemoration of Holocaust victims, elections to the Board of the Jewish Community, burial permissions, maintenance of the Jewish cemetery, and disposal of the community’s property. There are also financial records, minutes of Board meetings, and a list of community members." (USHMM)]]></p>
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      <p><![CDATA[The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Jewish Museum of Greece via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in March 2009 [RG-45.0071; DVD-ROM, 1.81 GB, 2.751 digital images ] ]]></p>
    </altformavail>
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      <p><![CDATA[https://portal.ehri-project.eu/units/us-005578-irn36895]]></p>
    </altformavail>
    <altformavail encodinganalog="3.5.2">
      <p><![CDATA[http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn36895]]></p>
    </altformavail>
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      <p><![CDATA[In 1940, the combined Jewish Community of Patras and Agrinio consisted of 265 individuals. During the German occupation, the order of 8 October 1943, for the Community’s members to be registered, was widely resisted. All the Jews of Agrinion fled to the mountains, while in Patras the Germans managed, mainly with the help of their local
collaborators, to arrest and deport 213 members of the Community. 152 of those survived and returned after the war, but the Community was a mere shadow of its former self. Apart from the dead in the Holocaust, the number of surviving Jewish families gradually waned, mainly because many of them chose to relocate to other cities in Greece or ab
road. Being declared inactive in 1970, the Community was officially dissolved in 1991. In 1984 the Jewish Community of Patras was dissolved for lack of members and the interior of its synagogue, along with its textiles and ritual objects was bequeathed to the Museum. These religious artifacts are extremely significant, invaluable and irreplaceable, since they come, for the most part, from synagogues and communities, which no longer exist.]]></p>
    </bioghist>
    <accessrestrict encodinganalog="3.4.1">
      <p><![CDATA[No restrictions on access. ]]></p>
    </accessrestrict>
    <userestrict encodinganalog="3.4.2">
      <p><![CDATA[Reproduction is possible upon request. Restrictions on use. No publication without permission of the source archive.]]></p>
    </userestrict>
    <otherfindaid encodinganalog="3.4.5">
      <p><![CDATA[http://collections.ushmm.org/findingaids/RG-45.007_01_fnd_en.pdf.]]></p>
    </otherfindaid>
    <processinfo encodinganalog="3.7.1" type="Sources">
      <p>
        <bibref><![CDATA[Description is based on USHMM's website.]]></bibref>
      </p>
    </processinfo>
    <dsc>
      <c01>
        <did>
          <unitid>1.1.2</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">List of victimes' names</unittitle>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="ell" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Greek</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[List of names from Patras to be inscribed on the proposed monument to the victims of the Holocaust.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[Jewish Community of Patras]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname>Jewish Community of Patras</persname>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01>
        <did>
          <unitid>1.2.2.1</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Administrative records</unittitle>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="ell" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Greek</language>
            <language langcode="heb" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Hebrew</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Community elections, laws in the Government Gazette, war criminals, cemetery on the island of Corfu, German reparations, cemetery of Patras, applications, certificates, declaration of the Community as inactive, rescue of Community archive, Synagogue interior and its artefacts by the J.M.G., lists of Community members by name for 1952, 1955, 1971, 1972 and 1973.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
        <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
          <p><![CDATA[Jewish Community of Patras]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname>Jewish Community of Patras</persname>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01>
        <did>
          <unitid>2.1</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Correspondence and documents, 1947 – 1948</unittitle>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="ell" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Greek</language>
            <language langcode="heb" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Hebrew</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Correspondence and documents of the J.C.P., 1947 – 1948. Monthly activity reviews of the Community, fiscal reviews, circulars by the C.B.J.C., activity reviews of the Relief and Rehabilitation Committee, Jewish property: claims, restitutions. YIVO, WJC, minutes of the Community Board’s sessions on the mentioned topics, receipts of incoming and outgoing payments.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[Jewish Community of Patras]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname>Jewish Community of Patras</persname>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01>
        <did>
          <unitid>2.2</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Correspondence and documents, 1948 – 1949</unittitle>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="ell" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Greek</language>
            <language langcode="heb" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Hebrew</language>
            <language langcode="eng" encodinganalog="3.4.3">English</language>
            <language langcode="fra" encodinganalog="3.4.3">French</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Correspondence and documents of the J.C.P., 1948 – 1949. Monthly activity reviews of the Community, fiscal reviews, circulars by the C.B.J.C., activity reviews of the Relief and Rehabilitation Committee, Jewish property: claims, restitutions. YIVO, WJC, minutes of the Community Board’s sessions on the mentioned topics, receipts of incoming and outgoing payments. Relief and rehabilitation organisations, lists of relief allocation, burial permissions for the 1st Municipal Cemetery of Patras.]]></p>
        </scopecontent>
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          <p><![CDATA[Jewish Community of Patras]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname>Jewish Community of Patras</persname>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
      <c01>
        <did>
          <unitid>3.1</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Correspondence and documents, 1951 – 1970</unittitle>
          <langmaterial>
            <language langcode="ell" encodinganalog="3.4.3">Greek</language>
            <language langcode="eng" encodinganalog="3.4.3">English</language>
          </langmaterial>
        </did>
        <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
          <p><![CDATA[Correspondence and documents of the J.C.P., 1951 – 1958 Monthly activity reviews of the Community, fiscal reviews, circulars by the C.B.J.C., activity reviews of the Relief and Rehabilitation Committee, Jewish property: claims, restitutions. YIVO, WJC, minutes of the Community Board’s sessions on the mentioned topics, receipts of incoming and outgoing payments. Relief and rehabilitation organisations, lists of relief allocation, burial permissions for the 1st Municipal Cemetery of Patras, 10th anniversary from the establishment of the State of Israel, a “Book of minutes of the Community Board’s sessions from 1/1/1955 – 25/10/1970”.]]></p>
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          <p><![CDATA[Jewish Community of Patras]]></p>
        </acqinfo>
        <controlaccess>
          <persname>Jewish Community of Patras</persname>
        </controlaccess>
      </c01>
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    <controlaccess>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="887">Jewish property</subject>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1220">Postwar period</subject>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="1042">restitution</subject>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="864">Jews and Jewish life</subject>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="872">Jewish Community</subject>
    </controlaccess>
    <controlaccess>
      <geogname source="terezin-places" authfilenumber="PLACE.JMP.400">Athens</geogname>
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    <controlaccess>
      <corpname>Ισραηλιτική Κοινότητα Πατρών</corpname>
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