Metadata: Collection of History of Belgrade Since 1941 – Sima Karaoglanović Collection
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Belgrade City Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Музеј града Београда (Muzej grada Beograda)
- Postal address:
- Zmaj Jovina 1, 11 000 Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
- Phone number:
- (+381) 3283-504
- Web address:
- http://www.mgb.org.rs/
- Email:
- office@mgb.org.rs
- Reference number:
- MGB-I/II I
- Title:
- Collection of History of Belgrade Since 1941 – Sima Karaoglanović Collection
- Title (official language):
- Збирка Историја Београда од 1941 –Збирка Симе Kараоглановића
- Creator/accumulator:
- Belgrade City Museum
- Date(s):
- 1941/2000
- Language:
- Serbian
- Extent:
- 1,606 items
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The History of Belgrade Since 1941 Collection – Sima Karaoglanović Collection comprises various archival materials such as photographs, records, manuscripts, posters, announcements regarding the events from the confinement camps, notebooks, memoirs, etc.
Documents and manuscripts created in the concentration camps: Information about a cinema showing in the Offenburg camp, 25 September 1941; Notices of oral newspapers in the camp; - program of the National Orchestra performed in the camp; program of the play "Barbed Wire" performed in the camp, 28 September 1941; Schedule of works in a camp; Notification to prisoners that they were allowed to transfer money and securities; Notice of the cinema showing in a camp; Oral newspapers in camps; Notices on holding literary evenings in a camp; Notices on cinema performances in a camp; Oral newspapers created in a camp.
The collection also contains information on lectures held at the Camp University, lists of lecturers, painters, writers, members of theatre. Certificates of the completed exams passed at the "Commercial Course" in Oflag 55. Posters of watercolour and drawing exhibitions. Parts of notebooks created in the camp. Letters addressed to Simo Karaoglanović; Plans for arranging a camp life; propaganda materials; photographs taken in the camp; various caricatures, watercolours, drawings and portraits; Applications for recognition of length of service during the time spent in the camp, 1963; Diaries; Notebooks; Memories, Poems, Congratulation cards; press clippings.
- Archival history:
- The Collection of History of Belgrade Since 1941 was created by purchase and gift.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Sima (David) Karaoglanović, a law graduate from Belgrade, was born in 1910. From 1930 he was a candidate for membership and from 1933 a member of the Communist Party. He was arrested several times for his revolutionary work. Until the war, he wrote for the “Proleter“newspaper and collaborated with other progressive newspapers. After the disintegration of the Yugoslav army in April 1941, he was taken to Germany as a prisoner because he was a reserve officer. He spent the war years in the Nuremberg camp, where he was a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia camp committee, and also in the Osnabrück camp. In the camp, he handled the party equipment and participated in the publication of newsletters with radio news. After his release from the camp he edited the newspaper "Glas oslobođenih zarobljenika" in which Yugoslav officers and soldiers who had been prisoners of war were invited to give their recollections. He was decorated with the Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941.
- Access points: locations:
- Belgrade
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Concentration camps
- Personal records
- World War II
- Finding aids:
- There is an inventory. The card file is an additional finding aid.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Dragana Mitrašinović; Historical Archives of Belgrade; 2020
