The Jewish community of Salonika, 1943 : from the book: Recanati, Aure. The Jewish community of Salonika, 1943 (Jerusalem, Erez, 2003): (ID: 33474)
Authorship or Source:
- Recanati, Aure.
- Tagger, Mathilde.
- Malka, Jeffrey.
Year:
2007
Title or Main Description:
The Jewish community of Salonika, 1943 : from the book: Recanati, Aure. The Jewish community of Salonika, 1943 (Jerusalem, Erez, 2003): index of surnames compiled by Mathilde Tagger with the authorization of the author. [Internet resource]
Description:
Number of Names or Other Entries-- Approx. 13,500 Names.
Type of Work:
Computer files
Alternate or Series Title:
- Recanati Salonika Index Database.
- Aure Recanati Database.
- The Jewish Community of Salonika, 1943. Indexes
- Thessaloniki Jewish community records, 1939-1945 [microform]. Indexes
Provenance:
"Of Salonician origin, Aure Recanati was born in France. She survived WW II hidden in villages in France but she was unable to forget these years of deep fear and vital danger as well as the surrounding anti-Semitic hatred. She was devastated and inconsolable by the nearly total extermination of Greek Jewry and angry since the tragedy that occurred in Greece seemed to be ignored by all. By chance, she happened to participate in the July 1997 International Genealogical Conference held in Paris. At the Conference Serge Klarsfeld delivered a lecture on the deportation of the Jews of France. After the lecture during the question period , she asked him: 'Is there a similar memorial book for the Jews of Greece?' No! he replied. Are there plans to prepare such a memorial book? She asked. No! was his answer. Recanati immediately decide 'I'll prepare that memorial'. Not finding any archival material neither in Paris nor in Saloniki, she decided to try the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. While trying to be understood, an archivist gave her microfilm rolls. They included a part of the Saloniki Community Archives taken by the Germans in Oct.1944 and seized by the Russians who kept them secret till the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. These documents were in fact forms fulfilled by Saloniki Jews about their possession on March 1, 1943. A few days later they were sent to their death in Auschwitz. Recanati's compilation includes nearly 4,100 forms that covers some 13,500 persons. A third of the Saloniki population at the eve of the extermination. The index includes all the surnames together with their various spellings as well the number of applications for each surname and its variations."--[Introductory text at:] http://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/recanatiSalonikaSrchFrm.html.
Keywords:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Greece --Thessalonike --Registers.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) --Registers.
- Concentration camp inmates --Poland --Oswiecim --Registers.
- Jews --Greece --Thessalonike --Registers.
- Jews, Greek --Poland --Oswiecim --Registers.
- Jewish property --Greece --Thessalonike --Sources.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Deportations from Greece --Thessalonike --Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Confiscations and contributions --Greece --Thessalonike.
- Thessalonik¯e (Greece) --Registers.
- O´swiecim (Poland) --Registers.
- The Jewish Community of Salonika, 1943. --Indexes.
- [Additional Geographic Keywords: Thessaloniki, Salonika, Saloniki]
Abstract:
Searchable online name index to the book, Recanati, Aure. The Jewish Community of Salonika, 1943 (Jerusalem, Erez, 2003). The database contains some 13,500 names, approximately a third of the Saloniki population on the eve of the deportations. Those names are contained in nearly 4,100 property forms that all Salonika Jews had to fill out on March 1, 1943, a few days before the trains left for Auschwitz. The database contains last names together with their various spellings as well as the number of forms under each last name. To consult the actual forms, one will need to spend time in a Museum which has copies of them such as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where it is held as "Thessaloniki Jewish community records, 1939-1945 [microform]", USHMM Archives Acc. 1997.A.0220).
Language and Other Notes:
- Cataloger-assigned title derived from webpage's header text.
- "© Jeffrey Malka, Jeffrey. This tool was created using Stephen P Morse's One-Step Search Tool generator."
- Last Accessed: 13 June 2011.
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