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Holding Institution: Εβραϊκό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης

  1. Αρχείο Ισραηλιτικής Κοινότητας Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Archive of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki
    • Archeio Israilitikis Koinotitas Thessalonikis

    The Archive covers the period from the last years of the ottoman administration in the City until the begin of the deportation in spring 1943 (mainly the years 1917-1943). Registration books, records and correspondance of the Jewish Communal Council, the Rabbinical Court, the Commission of Education, other institutions, Salonica Palestine S.A.. The bulk of the material was written in Ladino.

  2. Αρχείο Ισραηλιτικής Κοινότητας Καβάλας

    • Archive of the Jewish community of Kavala
    • Archeio Israilitikis Koinotitas Kavalas

    The material covers the period of the interwar, the WWII and postwar. It's about the relations between the Jewish community and the local authorities and other Jewish communities in Macedonia and Thrace, the case of the old and the new Jewish cemetery, the economic situation of the community, the education and the communal school, the religious celebrations.

  3. Αρχείο Χαρτών και Κατόψεων

    • Archive of Maps and Plans
    • Archeio Charton kai Katopseon

    It contains information about the Jewish districts and synagogues of Thessaloniki.

  4. Μικρές Συλλογές

    • Small Collections
    • Mikres Sylloges

    Photo archive: Copies of photographs of the Federal Archives of Germany (Jews’ concentration at Eleftherias Square in 1942) and original photographs of Jewish families and post-war communal events [1900-2013] Correspondence collection: it contains documents for trade, hereditary issues (unclassified).Collection of insurance booklets and passports before World War II (1920-1941).

  5. Συλλογή Σαμπετάι Τσιμίνο

    • Collection Sabetay Tsimino
    • Collection Sabetay Tsimino

    It contains more than 4.000 Pages of testimonies in commemoration of the Greek Jews who lived in the Greek provinces of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace occupied by the Bulgarians (1941-1944). Its special forms were designed by Yad Vashem to restore the personal identity and brief life stories of the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices.

  6. Αρχείο της Επιχειρηματικής Δραστηριότητας των Εβραίων της Θεσσαλονίκης 1920-1940

    • Archive of the business activities of the Jews in Thessaloniki 1920-1940
    • Archeio tis Epicheirimatikis Drastiriotitas ton Evraion tis Thessalonikis 1920-1940

    It contains information and archival material for thousands of Jewish and mixed sociétés anonymes (S.A.s) and sole proprietorships.