Metadata: Commission for Monuments and Memorials of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Historical Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Јеврејски историјски музеј (Jevrejski istorijski muzej)
- Postal address:
- Kralja Petra 71A, 21000 Belgrade
- Phone number:
- (+381) 112622-634
- Web address:
- http://www.jimbeograd.org/
- Reference number:
- AJIM, KS SJOJ
- Title:
- Commission for Monuments and Memorials of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia
- Title (official language):
- Kомисија за споменике и спомен-обележја СЈОЈ
- Creator/accumulator:
- Commission for Monuments and Memorials of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia
- Date(s):
- 1944/1991
- Language:
- Serbian
- Extent:
- 1.5 linear metres (5 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises documents created by the Commission for Monuments and Memorials of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia. It contains records and photographs of monuments and memorials erected in memory of World War II victims. It also provides data on the erection of monuments in 1952, when monuments were ceremoniously opened within a few days of each other in Đakovo, Novi Sad, Zagreb, Sarajevo and in Belgrade at the Jewish Cemetery.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The Commission for Monuments and Memorials was founded by the decision of the Executive Board of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia on 10 September 1977 with the scope to organise and carry out the listing of he places of suffering of Jews and victims of Nazi terror in Yugoslavia, i.e. to establish the locations of the existing monuments and memorials that were dedicated to Jews, victims of the Nazi terror, and the participants of the national liberation war who were executed, as well as the earlier (i.e. prior to 1941) existence of the Jewish communities, student, sports, cultural, artistic and other social organisations and cemeteries, synagogues and similar facilities.
In addition, the Commission had the task to erect and maintain monuments and memorials in places of major importance, to collect information and data on actions taken outside the Jewish community regarding the erection of memorials to Jews who fell in the national liberation war or were the victims of the Nazis, to mark with appropriate landmarks sites of exhumation and of closed cemeteries, to collect information on the condition and the maintenance of the existing memorials and facilities, and to coordinate such activities carried out by the municipalities on their own initiatives.
The Jewish community of Yugoslavia was informed on the activities accepted by the municipalities, referred in the act with the reference number KSO - 563 dated 24 April 1979. Officials were appointed to carry out these activities. Engineer Moritz Levi was elected as the head of the Commission. After the dissolution of the country (SFRY) into several states, the commission stopped working and some of its tasks were taken over by the Memorial Commission of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Serbia.
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Monuments and memorials
- Photographs
- World War II
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system of arrangement.
- Finding aids:
- No finding aids compiled.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Bojan Zorić; Jewish Historical Museum; 2020
