Metadata: Serbian National Bank
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- National Bank of Serbia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Народна банка Србије (Narodna banka Srbije)
- Postal address:
- Kralja Petra 12, Belgrade
- Phone number:
- (+381) 113027-100
- Web address:
- https://www.nbs.rs/sr_RS/indeks/
- Email:
- arhiv@nbs.rs
- Reference number:
- ANB 1/I
- Title:
- Serbian National Bank
- Title (official language):
- Српска народна банка
- Creator/accumulator:
- Serbian National Bank
- Date(s):
- 1941/1944
- Language:
- Serbian
- German
- Extent:
- 5 linear metres (55 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection comprises the records of the Serbian National Bank, dealing with its monetary and credit policies, including the withdrawal and replacement of the Yugoslav money by the Serbian dinar, as well as foreign exchange and clearing operations during the Second World War. Some of the collection refers to Jewish property (confiscations, claims of Jews and enterprises founded by the Jewish capital deposited with the National Bank of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in liquidation, as well as with the Serbian National Bank, transfer of Jewish claims and deposits, claims of Jewish prisoners of war, accounts, lists of depositors in the State Hypothecary Bank).
The following documents refer to Jews: List of claims by Jewish companies and individuals based on the exchange rate clearing with Germany upon the requests placed prior to 17 April 1941 (the capitulation of the country); Report on unliquidated prisoner of war remittances of Jews dispatched to them on the territory of Serbia, 11 March 1944; List of transfers that couldn't be remitted to users or senders due to their Jewish origin; List of transfers that could not be remitted due to their Jewish origin, 30 December 1941; Transfers received from the prisoner of war camps whose users or senders were Jews (June 1942); Lists of transfers dispatched from the Oflag XIII Ninbert prison camps that couldn't be delivered because either recipients or senders were Jews, 6 July 1942; List of Yugoslav banknotes received from various camps in Germany, the senders being Jews and the recipients German; List of prisoners’ remittances to Jewish beneficiaries (the table contains the name and surname of the beneficiary, the name of the sender and the prisoner number, the camp from where the remittance was sent and the amount); Claims made by Jews and Jewish companies to the Serbian National Bank and the accounts which Jews had with the National Bank, the Metropol Bank, the Trade Savings Bank, the Yugoslav Bank in Liquidation; List of Jews from whom money was confiscated at the border, pursuant to the foreign exchange regulations, and accordingly delivered to the Serbian National Bank, 10 January 1942; Jewish credits at the Belgrade Commercial Bank, Belgrade; List of Jewish securities; Jewish current accounts as of 31 May 1941 opened at the Yugoslav Credit Bureau; List of Jewish claims placed with the Šabac Bank, as of 6 April 1941, compiled by the order of the General Plenipotentiary for Economy in Serbia, 25 May 1941; Lists of Jewish deposits placed prior to 17 April 1941, Vršac Bank branch; Communication of the Serbian National Bank to the Sequester of the General Directorate regarding the liquidation of Jewish claims and deposits; List of transfers cancelled by the German Cash Register (Berlin), which were paid by Jewish companies and individuals prior to the war for clearing with Germany, the Czech Republic, Moravia (the list contains the name and surname of the person, amount in foreign currency, clearing number, exchange rate, canceled amount in dinars, basis of payment, whether the person was in debt with the bank, the debt amount and remark); List of Jewish companies and individuals who placed claims for the clearing on the basis of payment orders received after 6 April 1941 (the list includes Geca Kon, Ezra Kajon, Eugen Shalgo, Marco Albahari, Nisim Ruben, Menachem Amar and others); List of Jewish claims as of 5 January 1943; The Secretariat of the General Directorate requested the National Bank of Serbia to report whether the following persons and companies had debts: Neta Leonović, Delta Šica, Haim Cepo, Aladar Lupu, Ervin Klauder, Industrijska banka, Kolonijalna banka, Jugotarif, Industrijska banka; List of Jewish deposits in Yugoslav banknotes as of 15 January 1943 (there were 107 Jews on the list, which contained the following data: name and surname of the deposit owner, camp in which he was detained, type of deposit, data on the type of deposit value, remark/citizenship); List of Jewish claims which were under the Administration of a Commissioner related to the “Accounts Linked to the Serbian National Bank” (the list included the Metal Products Factory “Fortuna” Zemun, the Munk Factory and Sava Trikotaža (Knitwear)); List of government securities from Jewish deposits, submitted to the Ministry of Finance in Zemun for new bonds; Jewish deposits and government securities (18 January 1943); List of Jewish claims based on the current accounts which they had at the Serbian National Bank, which was being transferred to the "Liquidation Management" of the Military Command for the South-East at the Balkan Society, 19 November 1943; Appendix to the list of Jewish claims and deposits placed at the credit institutions in the area under the Military Command in Serbia, 4 March 1943 (the list contains the name and surname of the person, their address, amount of the claim and remark); List of Jews and Jewish companies indebted to the NBKY in Liquidation; Lists of persons whose names did not reveal whether they were Jews or German, 11 June 1941; Additional list of 286 persons who kept their deposit safes with the French-Serbian Bank; List of 1274 Jews who had savings in the banks, 25 May 1941; List of 801 persons with savings at the bank but it was not evident from their name whether they were Jews or German, 8 April 1941; List of Jewish deposits, undetermined whether Jewish or German; List of Jewish current accounts and those considered to be Jewish; Directories of the Jewish Fund; List of accounts blocked on 14 June 1941; List of persons who deposited securities with the Bank, 25 May 1941; Ban on Jewish property in 1941: the collection contains a letter from the Pančevo branch regarding the ban on any payment to Jews, Jewish companies, companies whose capital was predominantly or completely Jewish, with the exception of Jewish companies headed by the German commissioners; Jewish properties in the bank - account numbers of Otili Leonović, Lazar B. Avramović, Baumwedl-Texil, Michael Danon, Abraham Konforti, Jozef Alkalaj, David Levi, Solomon Demaj, David Moschits, Dr. Hugo Horowitz, Vederfabrik A. Niš, Dr. Joseph Singer; Claims of Jewish companies under the Commissioner's administration: "Central", H. Herzler and Co., Radio Maler, Geca Kon, Izvor; Requirements of Jews outside the competency of the Military Command in Serbia: ŽM Totschild and Co.; Isak Zahler, Derventa; Jakov Scherf, Derventa; Osias Zeler, Derventa; File with claims from Cohen Avram and Company, Belgrade; List of the Jewish claims kept with the Serbian National Bank, which were transferred to the account "values in the central office" on 5 January 1943 (list contains the name and surname of the Jewish account holder, citizenship, amount of claim, on what basis, whether the claim was a new or old one, the amount of debt of the National Bank; the list included the companies Ervin Lovrić, Bank "Metropol", Simon Josif, Industrijska banka, Oil Factory Belgrade, Kolonijalana banka, etc.); List of 76 leased safes in the Serbian-French Bank (the list contains the names and surnames of the Jews, numbers of their safes, addresses, cities); List of 32 Jews who leased safes in the Jugoslovenska Union Bank; List of Jewish safes at the First Croatian Savings Bank; List of claims of Jewish companies under the Commissary administration in 1943; Claims of Jewish companies from Pančevo; List of Jews and Jewish companies that had domestic currency accounts at the National Bank; List of 95 Jewish companies and account balances in Yugoslavia; List of Jews, members of the Association of Traders of the Colonial, Delicacy and Grocery Mixed Goods of Belgrade, who participated in the Pension Fund; List of Jewish savings accounts at the First Croatian Savings Bank; List of Jewish accounts with deposits in the Yugoslav Bank; List of 23 Jewish companies with savings and current accounts in the General Bank of Trade and Industry in Belgrade; List of Jewish accounts at the Zanatsko kreditna banka, Belgrade; Jewish depositors at the German credit bank in Croatia; List of Jewish accounts in Exportbank; List of 104 Jewish accounts at the State Hypothecary Bank, its branches in Pančevo, Kragujevac and Niš.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Serbian National Bank was founded on 29 May 1941 by the order of the Military Commander in Serbia and ceased to exist with the liberation of Belgrade in October 1944. It was active in the region where the Military Command was in charge. The Bank was founded after the decomposition of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and its monetary system. With the German occupation the National Bank of Yugoslavia underwent the liquidation process and accordingly the Serbian National Bank was founded, while in the territory of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) the Croat State Bank was founded. It was active during the German occupation and with the liberation and the change of the socio-political system it ceased to exist.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Albahari, Marko
- Alkalaj, Jozef
- Amar, Menahem
- Avramović, Lazar B
- Cepo, Haim
- Demajo, Solomon
- Horowitz, Hugo
- Josif, Simon
- Kajon, Ezra
- Kaufman, David Levi
- Kon, Geca
- Leonović, Neta
- Lobrić, Ervin
- Lovrić, Ervin
- Moschits, David
- Ruben, Nisim
- Šalgo, Eugen
- Scherf, Jakov
- Singer, Jozef
- Zahler, Isak
- Zeler, Osias
- System of arrangement:
- The documentation was arranged according to the registry office order.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Dragana Mitrašinović; Historical Archives of Belgrade; 2020
