Selected records from the Romanian Ministry of Defense

Identifier
irn504359
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.A.0085
  • RG-25.003M
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Romanian
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

96,583 digital images, JPEG

396 microfilm reels, 35 mm

Creator(s)

Archival History

Romania. Ministerul Apărării Naționale

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.

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 Ministerul Apărării Naționale (Ministry of National Defence). Records were created by various Romanian Army units during World War II. The United States Holocauast Memorial Museum selected several files for filming in Jun 1991.The 396 reels were received at the Museum's Archives in July 1992, and additional digital files in March 2014 and July 2014. Ongoing project.

Scope and Content

Memoranda, lists, charts, maps, correspondence, orders, reports, and other documents relating to Jews in forced labor in Romania; deportations of Jews from Bessarabia and Bukovina to Transnistria (Ukraine); establishment of concentration camps in Transnistria; confiscation of Jewish property; executions of Jews; surveillance of Jews in Transnistria; and Hungarian atrocities in Transylvania.

System of Arrangement

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels and digital images. Arrangement is thematic.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Romania. Ministerul Apărării Naționale

People

Subjects

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.