Overview
- Description
- Postwar records of the Special Court for theTrials of the Local Collaborators in the area of Serres (Eastern Macedonia) in the former Bulgarian Occupation Zone, according to the Law 533/1945 for the collaboration with the enemy. The collection includes registries of collaborators, investigation files, outgoing correspondences concerning investigation, court proceeding and verdicts. The reverse side of some of the papers used for these investigations and correspondence contains documents of the Bulgarian Administration (mostly empty forms, but some with text) during the occupation years (1941-1944) in the same area. This collection also contains selected records of the Municipality of Serres related to the war damages inflicted by the Bulgarian occupation (1945-1950), personal archives of the local historian Nikos Nikolaou (1957-1993) containing lists of Jewish victims in survivors in Serres as well as copies of historical documents related to the history of the Jewish Community in Serres, minutes of the meetings and related correspondence drafted by the Administrative Services and Welfare department of the Serres Prefecture concerning the payments of pensions paid to the former members of the Greek anti-Nazi Resistance and prisoners of concentration camps and matters related to issuance of the certificates to the former member of the National Resistance (1945-2006), etc.
Includes also selected records related to the fate of Greek refugees under Bulgarian occupation ( 1941-1944), personal archives of George Maschos, lawyer and former mayor of Serres, containing a variety of records related to the postwar trials of local collaborators and Jewish property in Serres, etc. - Date
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inclusive:
1941-1971
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the 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 Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
- Collection Creator
- Archeia Nomou Serron
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Correspondence. Court records. Minutes. Photographs. Registers.
- Extent
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220,275 digital images : JPEG.
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
- Personal and sensitive information about individuals contained in the Selected Archival Material is subject to data protection laws in its country of origin (Greek law 2472/1997 for the protection of personal data), which require that the individuals’ anonymity is maintained in any use of the personal or sensitive information and that all necessary measures for the protection of these persons is taken.
- Copyright Holder
- Archeia Nomou Serron
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Greece--Macedonia. Collaborationists--Greece--History--20th century--Registers. Trials (Political crimes and offenses)--Greece--History--20th century.
- Geographic Name
- Serrai (Greece : Nome) Macedonia (Greece)--History--20th century. Greece--History--Occupation, 1941-1944.
- Personal Name
- Maschos, George.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Archeia Nomou Serron
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the General State Archives, Greece-Archives of Serres (Archeia Nomou Serron). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archival Programs in June 2017, accretion in July 2018, and accretion in June 2019.
Funding sources: Claims Conference and Stavros Niarchos Foundation (Greece/USA) - Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:16:21
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