Legion of Gendarmerie of Bucharest
Extent and Medium
5,808 digital images, JPEG
6 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Archival History
Direcţia Municipiului Bucureşti a Arhivelor Naţionale
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Direcţia Municipiului Bucureşti a Arhivelor Naţionale (National Archive of the Municipality of Bucharest). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archival Programs in May 2009.
Scope and Content
Contains records relating to surveillance of Jews, Zionists, Iron Guardists, Communists, Nazi organizations, and Roma; and to deportation of Roma to Transnistria and Roma deportees who returned from Transnistria. It also includes reports on antisemitism and on Jews who did not show up for forced labor.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Corporate Bodies
- Garda de Fier
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Romania.
- Transnistria (Ukraine : Territory under German and Romanian occupation, 1941-1944)
- Political persecution--Romania.
- Jews, Romanian--Romania--History--20th century.
- Romania--Politics and government--1914-1944.
- Nationalism--Romania--History--20th century.
- Romanies--Romania--History--20th century.
- Zionists--Romania.
Genre
- Document