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Records from the National Jewish Community, Rome (Unione delle comunita ebraiche Italiane)

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.203 | RG Number: RG-40.023

Overview

Description: Contains records relating to the situation of Italian Jews across Italy, with a larger section focusing on Rome and depicting the response of the Italian Jewish communities to both the racial laws and the deportations.
Date: inclusive: 1934-1948
Collection Creator: Unione della communita israelitiche italiane, Roma

Physical Details

Language: Italian
Extent: 116,386 digital images : TIFF and JPEG ; 17. 86 GB.
5 DVD ; 4 3/4 in..
System of Arrangement: The original records consists of 141 boxes, organized in 637 folders in chronological order between 1934-1948, and subdivided into the following subject groups: Record Group 43: Asilo Israeliti; Record Group 44: Assistenza ebrei profughi Delasem records (Delegazione Assistenza emigranti Ebrei); Record Group 45: Delasem records (Delegazione Assistenza emigranti Ebrei); 55: Assistenza agli ebrei negli istituti pubblici; 71: Censimento; 85: Antisemitismo; 91: Erez Israel e stato Ebraico; 92: Situazione sugli ebrei nel mondo; 93: Folder D and E (American Joint Distribution Committee, Congresso Mondiale Ebraico 1946); Record Group: Comitato recherche deportati ebrei.

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Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
Copyright Holder: Unione della communita israelitiche italiane, Roma

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Italy. Jews--Persecutions--Italy. Italy--Ethnic relations. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Italy. Jewish committees (ushmm)
Geographic Name: Rome (Italy)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Unione della communita israelitiche italiane, Roma
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Unione della communita israelitiche italiane, Roma (Union of Italian Jewish Communities in Rome), Italy. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Program in August, 2010.

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