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Selected records from the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Service of Diplomatic & Historical Archives

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2002.125 | RG Number: RG-45.003

Overview

Description: The collection primarily consists of correspondence between the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other agencies of the Greek government and with foreign governments and people living outside Greece. The correspondence concerns establishing the whereabouts of family members, reparations issues, immigration issues, and other concerns of Greek Jews living in Greece and abroad.
Date: inclusive: 1940-1951
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.
Collection Creator: Greece. Hypourgeio Exo?teriko?n

Physical Details

Language: Greek English French Romanian
Genre/Form: Correspondence.
Extent: 1,414 digital images : JPEG ; 1.09 GB.
1000 pages of photocopies.
30 microfiche.
1 CD-ROM ; 4 3/4 in..
3 microfilm reels ; 16 mm.
System of Arrangement: Arrangement is thematic.

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: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Service of Diplomatic & Historical Archives retains the copyright to the materials reproduced on microfilms. The USHMM will reproduce for the researchers microfilmed materials only with the written authorization of the Service of Historical Archives.
Copyright Holder: Greece. Hypourgeio Exōterikōn

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Greece--Reparations. Jews--Greece--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Greece--Reparations.
Geographic Name: Greece--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Greece. Hypourgeio Exōterikōn
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece, Service of Diplomatic & Historical Archives (Hypourgeio Exōterikōn). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Aug. 2002, in May 2012, and a final accretion in Sept. 2019.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Record last modified:: 2022-07-28 18:10:14
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