Thessaloniki Jewish Community records

Identifier
irn501744
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0220
  • RG-45.002M
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1945, 1 Jan 1943 - 31 Dec 1943
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Greek
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501744

Extent and Medium

12 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

digital images,

Creator(s)

  • David Saltiel

Archival History

Israēlitikē Koinotēs Thessalonikēs

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, Greece (Israēlitikē Koinotēs Thessalonikēs). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections Division, Archives branch received the collection in July 1997 via Heinz Kounio, Chairman of the Thessalonika Jewish Community, who discovered the records in Athens, Greece.

Scope and Content

The collection contains registration records for over 43,000 Salonika Jews completed prior to their deportation to Auschwitz. The cards contain personal information as well as itemized lists of real and material property subsequently aryanized by occupying forces and Greek collaborators.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is alphabetical by surname

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Israēlitikē Koinotēs Thessalonikēs

Subjects

  • Jews--Persecutions--Greece--Thessalonike.
  • Jews--Greece--Thessalonikē--Registers.
  • Greece--History--Occupation, 1941-1944.
  • Jews--Greece--Thessalonikē--History--20th century.
  • Sephardim--History--20th century.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Greece--Thessalonikē.
  • Thessalonikē (Greece : Regional unit)
  • Jewish communities (ushmm)
  • Thessalonikē (Greece)

Genre

  • Document
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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