Selected records from the State Archives in Osijek, Croatia
Extent and Medium
6,281 digital images, JPEG
Archival History
Državni arhiv u Osijeku
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 Državni arhiv u Osijeku (State Archive of Osijek (DAOS)). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Programs Division in Dec. 2014.
Scope and Content
Records related to the history of the Jewish Community of Osijek, and the Osijek region, Croatia, which includes the towns of Nasice, Donji Miholjac, Čepin, and Baranja county. This collection includes selected records from various archival collections related to the confiscation and nationalization of Jewish property (houses, shops, factories etc.), inventories of Jewish property, petitions of local Jews to free members of their families who are imprisoned in concentration camps (Djakovo, Jacenovac and other), discriminatory orders and decrees of the local municipalities related to the Jewish population, statistical data and numerous petitions of the local Jews applying for baptism into Catholic faith.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in six groups: 1. City government Osijek, 1941-1945 [HR 6]; 2.Office of nationalization of properties, 1941-1945 [HR 701]; 3. Municipality of Čepin, 1938-1942 [HR 40]; 4. Municipality of Donji Miholjac, 1941; 5. Municipality of Našice, 1931 [HR 24]; 6. County of Baranya, 1942 [HR-47].
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Državni arhiv u Osijeku
Corporate Bodies
- Djakovo (Concentration camp)
- Jasenovac (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Donji Miholjac (Croatia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Croatia.
- Jews--Croatia--Registers.
- Jewish property--Croatia--History--20th century--Registers.
- Municipal government.
- Osijek (Croatia)
- Našice (Croatia)
- Čepin (Croatia)
- Baranja (Croatia)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Croatia.
Genre
- Census data.
- Telegrams.
- Statistics.
- Correspondence.
- Document
- Petitions.