Selected records from the collections of the Arad branch of the Romanian National Archives
Extent and Medium
11,968 digital images, JPEG
14 microfilm reels, 35 mm
Archival History
Arhivele Naţionale ale României
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 Arhivele Naţionale ale României (Romanian National Archives), Fond Pretura Plasii Chişineu-Criş, 1872-1950, Inventar No. 187; Legiunea de Jandarmi a judetului Arad, 1940-1948, Inventar No. 119; and Liceul Teoretic Evreiesc Arad. 1941-1945, Inventar No. 668. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Romanian National Archives via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in Jan. 2011, and accretion in May 2018.
Scope and Content
Contains records from the Pretura (police unit) of Chişineu-Criş and includes records relating to: lists of registered Iron Guard, Jewish shops, Jewish enterprises, correspondence regarding Iron Guards and Jews, the situation of Jewish goods, indexes of Jewish addresses, and CNR goods (Aryanization) (Microfilm Reel 1-8). Includes records from the Legion of gendarmes Arad including various files regarding to the Iron Guard rebellion in Arad district, surveillance of religious groups, and the history of religious groups in Arad district (Microfilm Reel 9-12). Also includes records from the Jewish Theoretical High School of Arad including minutes of meetings of teachers, lists of teachers and administrative personnel, orders relating to teaching processes, forbidding activities of certain professors, and lists of children examined by the Jewish high school (Microfilm Reel 13).
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic. Organized in the following order: Reel 1-8, Fond Pretura Plasii Chisineu-Cris, 1872-1950, Inventar No. 187; Reel 9-10: Legiunea de Jandarmi a judetului Arad, 1940-1948, Inventar No. 119; Reel 11: Liceul Teoretic Evreiesc Arad. 1941-1945, Inventar No. 668.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Arhivele Naţionale ale României
Corporate Bodies
- Garda de Fier
Subjects
- Nationalism--Romania--History--20th century.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania.
- Romania--Politics and government--1914-1944.
- Arad (Romania)
- Chişineu-Criş (Romania)
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Romania.
- Romania--Registers.
Genre
- Registers.
- Document
- Correspondence.
Copies
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