Metadata: The Holocaust
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, Holokaust
- Title:
- The Holocaust
- Title (official language):
- Холокауст
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Historical Museum
- Date(s):
- 1933/1947
- Language:
- Serbian
- Croatian
- German
- English
- Extent:
- 7.2 linear metres (24 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The Jewish Historical Museum collected documents related to the Holocaust. They were arranged in the following groups:
1. Rescue missions: refugees from other countries: Austrian, Hungarian, German, Romanian Jews; Commission for Supplies to Jews.
2. Camps in Yugoslavia: Albanian (Priština), Bulgarian (Pirot, Skopje), Italian (Bol (Brač), Crikvenica, Dubrovnik, Korčula, Kraljevica, Kupari, Milna (Brač), Nerezište (Brač), Pile (Dubrovnik), Postire (Brač), Rab, Split, Sumartin (Brač), Supetar (Brač), Vela Luka; Hungarians (Bačalmaš, Bačka Topola, Maria Nostra, Šarvar); German (Banjica Jabuka, Kuršumlijska banja (Niš), Niš – Crveni Krst, Bubanj, Šabac, Jarak, Sajmište, Sremska Mitrovica, Srpska Crnja, Topovske šupe, Zasavica, Šabac, Zrenjanin (Petrovgrad)); Ustashes (Banja Slatina, Bijeljina, Brčko, Danica, Koprivnica, Daruvar, Đakovo. Dražica (Metajna), Čapljina, Feričanci, Gornja Rijeka Loborgrad, Gospić, Gređani Salaš, Jadovno, Jasenovac, Jaska, Jastrebarsko, Karlovac, Kerestinac, Krapje Jasenovac, Krušćica, Lepoglava, Loborgrad).
3. Camps in the territory of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH): Obradovac, Osijek, Pale Sarajevo, Sarajevo-Vojni logor, Sisak, Slano Pag, Slavonski Brod, Stara Gradiška, Tenje, Vinkovci, Zagreb.
4. Camps outside Yugoslavia: Albanian – Berat, Italian – Feramonti, San Vincenzo della Fonte, Hungarian – Budapest, Ghetto of Budapest, German – Auschwitz, Birkenau, Bergen Belzen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dora, Flosenburg, Friedhof, Ebensee, Gardelegen, Goleschau, Grosrozen, Gusen II, Hardheim, Litzmnsdadt (Lodz), Lviv, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Neburghausen, Neugusen, Ravensbrück, Other camps – Sachsenhausen, Sosnowiec, Stutthof, Sutrop, Schwarzenveld, Theresienstadt, Treblinka, Warsaw Ghetto, Vobelin, Swiss – Esplanade, Ceux, S/Montreau.
5. Crimes outside camps: Deportations: Bulgarian, Italian, Hungarian, Nedić Government, Ustashes. Expropriation; Forced labour, Anti-Jewish measures, Demolition of Jewish cultural monuments.
6. Occupation: Archives and Orders of the occupiers and quisling governments, occupying and quisling press, post-war publications on Jews during the occupation.
7. National liberation struggle: autobiographies, documents of the occupiers, documents of public institutions, of military units; obituaries of participants; articles, lectures, personal documents of the participants of the National Liberation War, memorial materials, tombstones, national heroes, National Liberation Committee Rab, pre-war activists; publications on the National Liberation War, lists of participants, participants of the national liberation struggle and the national liberation movement, streets bearing names, buildings related to the national liberation struggle.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The Jewish History Museum was the only institution in the former Yugoslavia which was committed to collecting and researching documentary material on the Holocaust. Out of the total number of Jews of Europe who were killed during World War II, 67,248 Jews of a population of 82,242 (i.e. 81.76%) suffered in Yugoslavia. 90% of the total number of Jews died In Serbia, in Bačka it was 84%.
As early as July 1945, the Autonomous Aid Committee was formed. It included the Information Department, which was responsible for establishing contacts with related institutions in the country and abroad in order to obtain information on Jews who did not return home and to compile lists of living and dead Yugoslav Jews. The Jewish community in Yugoslavia, who suffered immensely during World War II, and accordingly feared that the traces of the existence of Jews in Yugoslavia would be lost, dedicated itself to collecting data on victims, detainees, Jews sheltered by good people, those who were saved in other environments and states, and fighters against the occupiers (Nazis, fascists and domestic enemies). In the post-war years, the Yugoslav Jews gave equal importance to the victims of the war and to the fighters against fascism, as documented by the number of erected monuments.
- Access points: locations:
- Yugoslavia
- System of arrangement:
- The documents were not arranged according to archival principles.
- Finding aids:
- No finding aids have been created.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Bojan Zorić; Jewish Historical Museum; 2020
