Metadata: Miscellaneous Collection
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archives of Niš
- Holding institution (official language):
- Историјски архив Ниш (Istorijski arhiv Niš)
- Postal address:
- Tvrđava bb, 18000 Niš, Republic of Serbia
- Phone number:
- (+381) 018 515 609
- Web address:
- https://www.arhivnis.rs/
- Reference number:
- IAN-VAR
- Title:
- Miscellaneous Collection
- Title (official language):
- Збирка VARIA
- Creator/accumulator:
- Historical Archives of Niš
- Date(s):
- 1737/2020
- Language:
- Serbian
- Bulgarian
- German
- Turkish
- Extent:
- 921 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection comprises records created between 1737 and the current day. It includes records on the history of the workers’ movement, on the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia, the Union of the Communist Youth of Yugoslavia and the war for liberation of Yugoslavia, as well as the history of Niš and its surroundings, various agreements and contracts, minutes from the sessions of the City Assembly, etc.
Material relevant to Jewish history includes reports on the Jews who perished during WWII addressed to the State Commission of Serbia for Determining the Crimes of Occupiers, photographs of the “Righteous Among the Nations“ taken by Jelena Glavaški, report of Leonid Sid to the General Consul of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Jerusalem regarding the arrest and deportation of Jews in Pirot, list of Jewish households in the city in 1931, list of Jews settled in Niš prior to the War, list of Jews confined by the occupying forces, list of Jewish refugees in the territory of Niš, etc.
- Archival history:
- The collection was compiled from the records which didn't belong to any of the existing archival fonds at in the Historical Archives of Niš.
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Righteous Among the Nations
- Refugees
- World War II
- System of arrangement:
- The collection was catalogued in four periods: the oldest records; period between the two world wars; WWII; Post-War Period. Records are catalogued into groups chronologically and according to themes.
- Finding aids:
- There is a Guide Through the Archival Material.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Ivana Gruden Milentijević; National Museum of Niš; 2021
