Overview
- Description
- Consists of 3,737 court cases from the Court of Thessaloniki, minutes of meetings, reports based on minutes, reports of the court reporters, etc. Records relate to petitions to the court by Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, either seeking approval for a formation of a relatives' council and the appointment of a committee "on behalf of those absent in Poland" or legal confirmation that their relatives, lifetime residents of Thessaloniki named in their petitions, have been killed in Birkenau or Auschwitz, or died on the way there.
- Date
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inclusive:
1945-1960
- 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
- Extent
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10,000 photocopies.
- Extent
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12 boxes
- System of Arrangement
- Organized by the case file number. Arrangement is chronological.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Greece. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Greece--Sources. World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Europe. Jewish property--Greece--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Greece. Jewish communities (ushmm)
- Geographic Name
- Thessalonikē (Greece) Thessalonikē (Greece : Regional unit)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Mr. Christos Cavvadas
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections Division, Archives branch received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project Division in January 2005.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-14 13:47:28
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn522961
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