Metadata: Chamber of Professionals and Craftsmen
Collection
- Country:
- Greece
- Holding institution:
- General State Archives - Historical Archive of Epirus
- Holding institution (official language):
- Γενικά Αρχεία του Κράτους - Ιστορικό Αρχείο Ηπείρου
- Postal address:
- D. Filosofou & Glykidon, Ioannina 452 21, Greece
- Phone number:
- 003026510 34469
- Web address:
- http://gak.ioa.sch.gr/
- Email:
- mail@gak.ioa.sch.gr
- Reference number:
- ∆ΙΟΙΚ. 6.1
- Title:
- Chamber of Professionals and Craftsmen
- Title (official language):
- Επαγγελµατικό Βιοτεχνικό Επιµελητήριο
- Creator/accumulator:
- Chamber of Professionals and Craftsmen
- Date(s):
- 1934/1991
- Language:
- Greek, Modern (1453-)
- Extent:
- 328 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The archive with the title Chamber of Professionals and Craftsmen, which is housed at the Historical Archive of Epirus - General State Archives, is part of the archive of the Chamber of Ioannina and preserves important materials relating to commerce, industry, and craft production in the city of Ioannina. It includes newspapers, correspondence, bulletins, resolutions, as well as financial evidence, e.g. receipts. The archive includes evidence on the activity of Jewish merchants and craftsmen of Ioannina. Research has shown that it includes evidence for the restoration of Jewish businesses after the Holocaust and the destruction of the Jewish Community of Ioannina, mainly certificates issued in the period 1949-1950 to the few survivors who returned to the city.
- Archival history:
- The archive with the title "Chamber of Professionals and Craftsmen" was given by the Chamber of Ioannina to the General State Archives at an unspecified time. However, an important part of the archive remains within the Chamber of Ioannina (see entry).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Chamber of Professinals and craftsmen is one of the forms of the Chamber of Ioannina. It operated from 1933 until 1988 and was a Legal Entity of Public Law.
- Access points: locations:
- Ioannina
- Access, restrictions:
- Free access following communication with the archivist.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum of Greece
- Author of the description:
- Eleni Kouki; Jewish Museum of Greece researcher; 2022
