Salonika-Palestine Corporation AG "Saloniki-Palästina", Saloniki (Fond 1437)
Extent and Medium
3 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm
6,238 digital images, JPEG
Creator(s)
- Salonika-Palestine Corporation
Biographical History
The Salonika Palestine Corporation was the financial banking agent associated with the Salonika Palestine Bureau and served the purpose of supporting, financially and otherwise, the work of the Palestine Bureau. It assisted in selecting candidates for emigration and helped finance their move to Palestine, created employment for them and for temporary migrants (including Halutzim headed to Palestine for three years of temporary employment), and financed kibbutzim and Jewish industrial projects in Palestine. It also aided in the Purchase of lands for the establishment of agricultural and urban settlements in Palestine.
Archival History
Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Russian State Military Archive (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv), Osobyi Archive, Fond 1437. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 1993.
Scope and Content
Correspondence with banks and manufacture companies, including with the Jewish Colonial Bank in London, American Jewish Joint Distributions Committee, Salonika Palestine Bank, and others. Includes statistics of financial activities, loans, bank expenses, lists of prices of manufacture goods, contracts and power of attorney between bank and different clients. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.
System of Arrangement
Fond 1437 (1924-1941). Opis 1; Delo 1-13. Arranged in two series: 1. Correspondence between Salonika Palestine Bank and the Jewish Colonial Trust of London, and other banks, 1924-1941; 2. Statistics of financial activities, loans, expenses, savings accounts, net gains, etc., of the Salonika Palestine Bank. Note: Location of digital images; Partial microfilm reels #154-156; Reel 154: Reel start-Reel end; Reel 155: Reel start-Reel end; Reel 156: Reel start-Image #1701.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
People
- Salonika-Palestine Corporation
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- Banks and banking, British. & Greece
- Jewish Agency for Palestine
Subjects
- Banks and banking.
- Banks and banking, Israeli.
- Banks and banking--Greece--History--20th century.
- Banks and banking, British.
- Jewish organizations--Greece--Thessalonikē--History--20th century.
- Greece.
- Israel.
- Thessalonikē (Greece).
- Palestine--History--20th century.
- Europe--History--20th century.
- Palestine.
- Jews--Greece--Thessalonikē--History--20th century.
Genre
- Statistics.
- Financial records.
- Correspondence.
- Bank statements.
- Document