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Country: Croatia

  1. Kotarsko poglavarstvo of Šibenik

    • County Administration Šibenik

    On 8 September 1943, Italy capitulated and the Independent State of Croatia officially recognized the Rome contracts, along with the Treaty of Rapallo of 1920, which had given Italy the territories of Istria, Fiume (now Rijeka), and Zara (Zadar). German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop approved of the NDH taking the Dalmatian territories gained by Italy at the time of the Rome contracts. By now, most of this territory was controlled by the Yugoslav Partisans, since the cession of those areas had made them strongly anti-NDH (more than one third of the total population of Split, for in...

  2. Ustaška nadzorna služba

    • The Ustasha Intelligence Unit

    The collection contains personal files and various financial documents: bills that arrived to (concentration) camps, and which relate to the consumption of goods in the camps, orders for shoes, slippers, wood, food and clothing, lists of dead prisoners, documents relating to the sending of packages to inmates, list of people coming into camps. Preserved are reports from the field and reports on detainees, by day.

  3. Sudovi Oružanih snaga NDH

    • Court-martial of the Independent State of Croatia

    The collection consists of the writings of some of the military courts of the ISC/NDH from the period 1941-1945, with data on military-judicial practices of the Independent State Of Croatia (reports on criminal cases, the statements on the proclamation of penalties).

  4. Ravnateljstvo ustaškog redarstva. Židovski odsjek.

    • Directorate of the Ustasha police. Jewish section.

    Collection includes pleas of Jews not to have to wear the Jewish sign; pleas to have their aryan rights recognized for different reasons; requests for protection; reports on arrests of Jews and deportations; reports from camps. Preserved are also office records from 1941 and 1942.

  5. Gradsko poglavarstvo Zagreb

    • City Administration of Zagreb

    757 books, 2450 boxes. (316.3 m)

  6. Židov

    • Hajehudi
    • The Jew

    "The Jew" touched on the daily politics in interwar Yugoslavia (following the goings-on in its capitals) and how the everyday politics touched upon Jews in all areas of Yugoslavia. Secondly, it kept up a continuous 'intergationist' (assimilationist) vs Zionist debate, clearly standing on the side of the latter; thirdly it followed anti-Semitic incidents in the country, as well as news from the Jewish worlds outside of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

  7. Ostavština Lavoslava Schicka - trezor

    • The Lavoslav Schick Collection - Treasury (protected area for especially valuable material)
    • Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica
    • ŠIK - Schick - R 7883-7888
    • English
    • 1932-1938
    • The collection does not have a unified code, but the archivists will know what it refers to, as all of the documents left to the lIbrary by Shick's widow after WW2 are stored together, each documents with its own refrence code. There are several hundred of his speeches, letters, articles, etc.

  8. Javno tužilaštvo Socijalističke Republike Hrvatske

    • The State Attorney office of the Socialist Republic of Croatia

    Public Prosecutor's Office was established in 1945. The Law on the Public Prosecutor's Office was adopted after the promulgation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946, and the Public Prosecutor's Office of PRC acted as an organ of public prosecution in the country. Collection holds 9 boxes of the Indictment Ante Pavelic-Andrija Artuković, from 1951 for their extradition. Besides the text of the statutory provisions of the ISC there is evidence, testimony and statements of surviving camp inmates, lists of interned and murdered Jews, etc.

  9. Gradsko poglavarstvo Osijek

    • The City Government of Osijek

    The collection contains minutes from meetings, files from the mayor's office files (prezidijal); documentation concerning various boards, the health services, the police, accounting and city budget, the military departments, the Social Services Commission, the Tax Office, the Committee for food; financial documentation. Particularly noteworthy are Civil Office documents among the well-preserved material of the architectural project.

  10. Ministarstvo skrbi za postradale krajeve Nezavisne Države Hrvatske

    • The Ministry of Welfare for the War-Affected Areas of the Independent State of Croatia (ISC)

    The collection holds pleas for help from refugees within the ISC. Note that the refugees in question mostly are non-Jewish, as the dates point it is towards the end of the war, but the collection might be interesting to appraise the general atmosphere of social welfare after the collapse of Italy in 1943. It is not excluded some of the cases handled within the collection refer to the remaining Jews in Croatia.

  11. Ministarstvo zdravstva i udružbe Nezavisne Države Hrvatske

    • The Ministry of Health Associations

    The General Directorate of Health Associations (udružba) contains records on the care and help bestowed to refugees, labor and pension insurance, legislation and plans related to the work of companies, information about associations connected to health and public health and safety, cadets, transport lists of people sent to work to Germany (and people sent to'work'to Germany), statistics on immigrants, and different records (books) on institutions and funds providing child care.

  12. Okružna komisija za ispitivanje zločina okupatora i njihovih pomagača srednje Dalmacije Split

    • • The County Committee for Investigating Crimes Committed by the Occupying Forces and Their Helpers in Central Dalmatia Split

    The various County Commissions on Establishing the Crimes of the Occupying Forces and Their Local Helpers during the war were established throughout Croatia, as well as the region of Dalmatia, following the end of the war. Direct perpetrators (1945/1946) were usually tried in ad hoc trials and executed. The controversy of trials in the immediate after-war period unfortunately sometimes overshadowed the anti-fascist victory.

  13. Okružni narodni odbor Šibenik

    • People's County Committee of Šibenik

    The local people's committees were established as district national liberation committees during 1943 and 1944. They represented the state administration bodies and local self-government and were responsible for establishment and provision of government services in administrative areas. This administration included various departments, e.g., for legal matters (formation of people's courts), education, social affairs, the economy, trade and commerce, technical matters, etc. They ended during 1946, in accordance with the new territorial and administrative changes.

  14. Hrvatski državni sabor (Nezavisne države Hrvatske)

    • The Parliament of the Independent State of Croatia

    Although the majority of the collection deals with the most general level of policy-making, and various parts of the creation of everyday life in the newly proclaimed ISC, some parts of the collection might be interesting to Holocaust scholars (passing of the laws; reports on how laws will be implemented, general religious affairs, school system, etc.).

  15. Redarstvena oblast za grad Zagreb

    • The city of Zagreb law enforcement unit

    Most of the collection consists of police records with personal data and the reasons for the arrest. Among other things preserved there are certificates, paid invoices, purchase orders, records of persons who have changed their religion, records of the parish police jurisdictions, etc.

  16. Velika župa Baranja

    • The Great Parish of Baranya

    Contains general files relating to the determination of social benefits, the nationalization of buildings, managing of the County Police District in Osijek, search for outlaws (sic), change of religion of the municipal clerks; includes the lists of officers and internal administration in the area of the County Ðakovo (site of a transit camp for Jews from Slavonija), lists of officers of the parish, which belonged to the competence of the Independent State of Croatia General Directorate for Internal administration.

  17. Kotarska oblast (Sresko načelstvo) Šibenik

    • County Administration Šibenik

    The (pro-fascist) Independent State of Croatia was proclaimed in April, 1941, and parts of Dalmatia shortly afterwards fell under the jurisdiction of Italy. The collection gives an introduction to the administrational and legal process for curtailing rights of specific groups in the society, including of Jews.

  18. Zbirka matičnih knjiga s područja nadležnosti Državnog arhiva u Zagrebu

    • Collection of registers books from the jurisdiction of the State Archives of the city of Zagreb
    • Državni arhiv u Zagrebu
    • HR-DAZG-870 Zbirka matičnih knjiga s područja nadležnosti Državnog arhiva u Zagrebu
    • English
    • 1677-1949

  19. Redarstvena oblast za grad Zagreb

    • Police District of the City of Zagreb

  20. Općinsko upraviteljstvo/ Kotarsko poglavarstvo Šibenik

    • Municipality Administration Šibenik

    Although predating the interwar period, there are a few valuable collections that refer to the (small) Šibenik Jewish community and Jewish individuals, including this one, which concerns permits, registries, etc.