Family Resources

Selected records from the State Archives of the Dodecanese Islands, Greece available at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Records of the Central Special Bureau of the Italian Carabinieri in Rhodes (today Greece; between 1912 and 1946, a part of Italy) and the card index of the surveillance files. The Archives of the Italian Carabinieri include information on individuals, businesses, citizenship, ethnic groups, spies, important events and political personalities. A high number of these 100,000 files concern the local Jewish community in Rhodes, following the creation of the central governing body of the Italian Jewish communities in 1931 to the deportation of July 1944. The Carabinieri recorded information on their lives, business, communal networks, political views, and personal behaviors.

A request for an in-person research is required as the digital collection is not available online. For more info, visit USHMM Collections

The Arolsen Archives

The world’s most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors that were targeted by the Nazi regime. The collection has information on about 17.5 million people and belongs to the UNESCO’s Memory of the World. For more information visit their website

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