Results across collections

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), we bring attention to archival documents that reflect how the Jewish community in Albania was registered and administered by the State Security after World War II. This section focuses on statistical and descriptive materials, which provide data on the number, geographical distribution, and administrative classification of this community.

The files belong to Fund 4 of the State Security and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and cover a time span from 1955 to 1991. They include analytical reports on the contingent of Israelis in Albania, local folders with nominal and biographical data, as well as documentation on procedures for repatriation and final departure to Israel. Together, these materials reflect different phases of the identification, administration, and institutional treatment of the Jewish community by state authorities during the socialist period and in the years of transition.

The Sigurimi documentation for Musine Kokalari is part of the investigative-judicial file of the 37 defendants in January 1946. Immediately after the elections, they were arrested because they had spoken out against the new electoral law and had made attempts to postpone the first elections. Musine was part of the group that drafted a note addressed to the British mission to intervene with the Albanian Government to postpone the holding of the first elections in order to organize and prepare the opposition front against the Democratic Front.

Musine's documentation in the Sigurimi files belongs to the period 1945-1983, throughout her entire life lived under the communist regime.