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Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Unprocessed appendix: Records from Greece)

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.213 | RG Number: RG-48.018M

Overview

Description: This collection contains a 19th century minute book from a "brotherhood" (Freemasons) from Athens, called "Athenon" (149 pages), date range: 1889 - early 1900s; a record book of a rabbinical court that originates from the Balkans, or possibly from Thessaloniki, which contains names lists from cities in Greece and Turkey (165 pages), date range: 1918-1926, and some records from 1933; also contains minutes of a rabbinical court, 1931-1934, Thessaloniki, Greece (120 pages).
Date: inclusive: 1889-1934
Credit Line: 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.

Physical Details

Language: Greek Czech
Extent: 267 digital images : JPEG ; 866 MB.
1 microfilm reel (digitized) ; 35 mm.

Rights & Restrictions

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: Publication of documents and duplication of reels for third parties require the written permission of the Czech National Archive. Use for commercial purposes expressly prohibited.
Copyright Holder: Národní archiv v Praze

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Freemasons--Greece--Athens. Jews--Greece--Thessalonikē--Registers. Rabbinical court--Greece--History.
Geographic Name: Thessalonikē (Greece)--Ethnic relations. Athens--Greece.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Národní archiv v Praze
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: This collection is an unprocessed appendix to the Reichssicherheitshauptamt records held by the Národní archiv v Praze (National Archives in Prague), Czech Republic. It is possible that the three items in this collection were confiscated in Greece by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Czech National Archives via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Sep. 2010.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Record last modified:: 2022-07-28 21:57:29
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