Our Archives contain thousands of precious records of historical, sociological, educational, and biographical value. The ongoing structural reorganization has revealed a keen vision of the primary Archival organization based on distinct Record Groups. The pivotal criteria determining the multifaceted construction have been historical relevance, geo-political factors, and archival integrity.
The department of Archives and Collections has structured and prepared for access 28 Record Groups, divided on collections, sub-collections, and the groups of documents. These new archival units are created and developed with regard to the modern archival standards. An explanatory narrative, also known as ‘finding aids’, precedes every record group, collection, and documents. This explanatory part comprises such rubrics as provenance, organization, language, historical and bibliographical note, scope and contents, and archival location. All in all, the newly reorganized archival structure shall enable easy navigation through the ‘sea’ of documents, artifacts, and artworks, as well as it shall facilitate effective research and findings.
The Archives as an integral subdivision of the Museum will serve as a research, educational, and overall an interdisciplinary center in the field on the Holocaust Studies and Modern European History with the goal to accommodate needs of scholars, researchers, students, and the community.
We hope the student of the Holocaust as well as the other categories of users will appreciate the opportunity to work with the broad array of the primary sources: diaries, personal memoirs, unpublished manuscripts, artworks from the ghettos and camps, documents of the Nazi State and Party, the extensive publications of the Allied Administration in Germany and Austria, materials on the war-crime trials, Displaced Person Camps’ publications, and the immediate postwar publications on the Holocaust history.