Hannah Starman research collection

Consists of photocopies of original documents collected from various archives in Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary, Austria, and Italy, pertaining to Jewish life in Slovenia from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century. Incudes copies of birth and death certificates; community membership lists; individual, community and industrial property listings; deportation lists; documents related to the aliyah of Slovenian Jews and the subsequent confiscation of their property; individual files pertaining to expropriation of Jewish properties by the Nazis and later by the Communist regime; documents pertaining to the efforts by the post-independence Jewish Community of Slovenia to reclaim its pre-war property; the archives of the Jewish Community of Slovenia; recorded and partly transcribed testimonies of Slovenian Holocaust survivors, including visual material; and general documentation pertaining to Jews in Slovenia (e.g., federal instructions as to how to treat Jewish property after the war, dealing with heirless property and decimated Jewish communities).