Јеврејски историјски музеј, Архив

The Jewish Historical Museum in Belgrade was founded in 1948. The Museum is established within the Federation of Jewish Communities of Serbia and is a unique museum in the country. It is thematically specialized and complex in terms of contents. Apart from museum collections, it also has a significant archive. The activity of the Jewish Historical Museum is versatile and dynamic – it stages exhibitions continually, it has a dynamic publishing activity, and as the only museum of its type, it provides daily assistance and information to scholars, scientists, students and artists, and other interested individuals. Apart from maintaining contacts with individuals, the Jewish Historical Museum cooperates closely with other similar national and international institutions. There are frequent individual and small group visits to the permanent exhibition of the Museum, and over the recent years there is an increasing number of group visits, especially foreign. The Museum is actively engaged in research on Jewish life and regularly publishes since 1971 the magazine with studies and research texts which cover the various subjects from the history of Jews on the territory of Yugoslavia. 

The JIM consists of two basic units: museum collections and archives. The archives consists of about 1.500 boxes of materials covering activities of the Jewish Communities and other Jewish institutions which were active for several centuries on this territory. The archives include material related to the life and work of Federation and individual communities of former Yugoslavia from the time before WW II, Jewish prewar press, materials related to antisemitism and the Holocaust, and the wealth of materials related to the Federation and Jewish communities in the period since 1945, as well as chemerotheka (newspaper clippings). Only about 70 boxes are accessible to researchers. In 2017 the Museum's staff has started processing and digitizing the other 1.300 boxes. During the holocaust, most of the documentation was destroyed, but almost everything that was saved and preserved is now in the Museum archive.  

The archive is open every weekday for researchers, students and concerned individuals. The Museum collaborates with many institutions, providing information on request and exchanging data.