Overview
- Description
- Contains selected records created by the regional authorities within Croatia related to Jews and Jewish communities in Croatia in 1918-1941. It includes information about Jewish organizations and associations active in prewar Croatia. The bulk of the collection relates to the foreign Jews entering or transiting through the territory of Croatia from the neighboring countries. It includes individual police and surveillance files, various name lists, police files of foreign Jews, including a list of Jewish refugees from Germany, Poland and Hungary, statistics, permission for temporary stay or transit, and correspondence with foreign consulates.
- Date
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inclusive:
1918-1945
- 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
- Serbo-Croatian
- Extent
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181,702 digital images : TIFF ; 519 GB.
- System of Arrangement
- The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the digital images. Selected materials organized by the record group and then by box number within the collection. Arranged by seven series: 1. History of Jews in Zagreb (Fond 1551); 2. Administration of Sava region, department for state security (Fond 145); 3. Religious communities and clergy (Fond 1365); 4. The Governor’s office (Fond 155); 5. Regional administration office for Croatia and Slavonia (Fond 137); 6. Department of the State Security (Fond 158); 7. Sava Region, Department of Administration (Fond 144); 8. Colection of regulations, orders, and forms (Fond 1377).
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. Researchers will be asked to abide by the Museum's user registration agreement to use archival records for private study and research only.
- Conditions on Use
- Duplication and publication of documents/microfilm reels or digital images for third parties require the written permission of the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb (Hrvatski državni arhiv u Zagrebu).
- Copyright Holder
- Hrvatski državni arhiv u Zagrebu
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jews--Croatia--History--20th century--Registers. Jewish refugees--Croatia--Registers. Jews, German-Croatia--History--20th century. Jews, Hungarian--Croatia--History--20th century. Jews, Polish--Croatia--History--20th century. Police--Croatia--History--20th century. Zionism--Croatia--History--20th century. Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Geographic Name
- Croatia--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century. Croatia--Ethnic relations--History--20th century. Yugoslavia--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.
- Corporate Name
- World Hashomer Hatzair
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Hrvatski državni arhiv u Zagrebu
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Hrvatski državni arhiv u Zagrebu (Croatian State Archives). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Programs Division in Sept.1999 and accretion in June 2017.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-02 08:57:38
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn71119
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