Selected records relating to the Holocaust in Romania

Identifier
irn501843
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0334
  • RG-25.021M
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 2002
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Romanian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501843

Extent and Medium

boxes

oversize boxes

62

2

30,350 digital images, TIFF

106 microfilm reels, 16 mm

Archival History

Federația Comunităților Evreiești din România. Centrul pentru Studiul Istoriei Evreilor din România

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 Center for the Study of the History of the Jews from Romania, Federation of Jewish Communities. The Archives received a subsequent accretions of microfilms in 1998-2000, photocopies of records in 2004 and 2005, and digital images in 2011.

Scope and Content

Contains records of the Federation of Union of Jewish Communities and the O.S.E. Bucharest branch relating to its relief and aid activities for Jews who were deported to Transnistria and those in Greater Romania. Also contains name lists of Jews originally from Transylvania and interned to the USSR, lists of orphaned children and the victims of the Iasi pogrom, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Romania information forms on families in Vaslui, Iasi and Burdeni, registration cards of deportees, newspaper clippings, album and documents containing photographs of Pogrom of Bucharest, registration cards of deportees, as well as records relating to forced labor, social assistance, and anti-Jewish measures.

System of Arrangement

Fond III from dosar 984-1221 (some files are missing); Fond IV-one file; Fond VI-three files; Fond VII-selected files; Fond X-two files. Arrangement is thematic

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Federația Comunităților Evreiești din România. Centrul pentru Studiul Istoriei Evreilor din România

Corporate Bodies

  • World Jewish Congress
  • Union O.S.E.

Subjects

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania.
  • Jewish communities (ushmm)
  • Romania
  • Jews--Romania--Transylvania.
  • Jews--Romania--Registers.
  • Romania--Ethnic relations.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Romania.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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