Documentation from the Tallinn City Archives from 1941-1956

Documentation from the Tallinn City Archives from 1941-1956 The Tallinn City Archives "collect, organize and preserve the archival materials of historical and ongoing municipal institutions of Tallinn, as well as other records of archival value which are important to the study of the City of Tallinn and its history": https://www.tallinn.ee/en/arhiivindus/about-tallinn-city-archives. The Yad Vashem Archives copied files from different record groups concerning notarial transactions: - the acts regarding nationalized, confiscated and ownerless property, and property of people who were imprisoned, registered in 1940-1945, compiled in the cities of Tartu, Tallinn, and Pärnu according to addresses on the following streets - Vismari, Koidu, Sugise, Niine, Videmanni, Kopli, Kalamaia, Olevimägi, Gonsiori, Niine, Videmanni, mnt., Felmani, Liivalaia, Roosikrantsi, Risti, Graniidi, Kaarli, Pikk, Laagri, Vene, Gonsiori, Kretsvaldi and others. - cases from 1941 of overdue taxes of Jews including personal data; inheritance cases; the case of the bailiff of the Tallinn Agricultural Cooperative Bank against E. Klas-Glas; - case of the bailiff at the Office of the Industrial Bank of the USSR in the Republic of Estonia in relation to P. Klompus; - case of the bailiff for the Tartu Industrial Bank against David Pasternak, Abo Luveschuk, Mark Scheinwitz and Moisha Komenovski; - judicial ruling in the case of G. Shapiro and M. Pärnamaa; lawsuit of the Tallinn Central Telegraph and Telephone Station against Abram Florel due to a debt. - lawsuit of the chocolate factory "Quality" against Abram Gershanov regarding debts. - lawsuit of the knitting factory "Marat" against Hirsh Raukhman regarding debts. - personal files of students and lecturers from the Tallinn Law School, from 1945-1955. The documentation contains hundreds of names of Estonian Jews. More materials from the Tallinn City Archives can be found in the files catalogued in 2015: M.44.TLA/1-791 In 2010-2011 the project was managed jointly with USHMM.