Overview
- Description
- Correspondence, minutes, reports, statistics, registers, etc. of various government offices (Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education, Police Department, Credit Unions, State Chancery, Tax Office, Banks, etc.) and Jewish organizations, banks and schools (Jewish National Committee, Cultural Autonomy of the Jewish Minority, Jewish communities of Tallinn and of Tartu, Jewish Cooperative Bank, etc.). The collection includes records related to the confiscation of the Jewish property (by the Soviet and German authorities 1940-1945), nationalization of the Tallinn Jewish Cooperative Bank (Tallinna Juudi Ühispank), reports of various banks and businesses, files of the police investigation of Jews in Estonia (1941-1942), a collection of antisemitic leaflets, 1906-1919, reports of the Jewish Agency in Palestine on situation in Palestine, indexes of Jews living in Estonia (1940), extracts from newspapers on the Jewish genealogy and two cases of photographs (1930-1932), history with plans of the Jewish cemetery in Haapsalu (1930-1932).
- Date
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inclusive:
1887-1945
bulk: 1924-1942
- 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
- Genre/Form
- Circulars. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Correspondence. Minutes. Notebooks. Photographs. Registers. Reports. Telegrams.
- Extent
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388,821 digital images : TIFF ; 8.50 TB .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in the following series: 1. Ministry of Internal Affairs: Police reports and correspondence; 2. Ministry of Internal Affairs and Education: Societies, organizations and schools; 3. Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Estonia: Income and Tax committees; 4. Jewish communities in Taru and Tallinn, Estonia; 5. Estonian and Jewish banks and credit associations.
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.
- Copyright Holder
- Eesti Rahvusarhiiv
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Estonia. Jews--Estonia--History--19th century. Jews--Estonia--Tallinn--History--20th century--Registers. Jews--Estonia--Tartu--History--20th century--Registers. Jewish councils--Estonia----History--20th century. Jewish religious schools--Estonia--History--20th century. Jewish organizations--Estonia--History--20th century. Banks and banking--Records and correspondence--Estonia--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Estonia. Executive departments.
- Geographic Name
- Estonia--Politics and government--20ty century. Tartu (Estonia)--History. Tallinn (Estonia) Haapsalu (Estonia) Estonia.
- Personal Name
- Gens, Nosson, 1885-1972. Mostach, Lejba.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Eesti Rahvusarhiiv
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Original records are kept by the Rahvusarhiiv (National Archives of Estonia). Digitization of records completed under the join project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the Yad Vashem and the Central Archives for the History of Jewish People in Jerusalem, Israel. The USHMM Archives received the digitized collection via the USHMM International Archival Programs Division in 2015.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 09:59:54
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn531013
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