Presidency of Council of Ministers-Military Cabinet Presedintia Consiliul de Miniştri-Cabinet Militar (Fond 764)

Identifier
irn509422
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.209
  • RG-25.013M
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Romanian
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

45 microfilm reels, 35 mm

Creator(s)

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 (National Archives of Romania), Fond 764.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Programs Division in Dec. 2001, Oct. 2013.

Scope and Content

Records of the military cabinet of Ion Antonescu. Topics covered include the persecution and deportation of Jews, confiscation of Jewish properties, and military actions against partisans. There are also secret police records relating to the Romanian withdrawal from Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina in 1940, as the USSR occupied these regions. Microfilms accreted in 2013 contain various correspondence of Antonescu with Hitler, Maniu, Horia Sima, as well as reports on Iron Guard and communist activities, SSI reports, decision of Antonescu relating to the "Jewish problem," decision of Antonescu relating to communists, correspondence with General Schobert, correspondence between the General Staff of the Army with the German military mission, orders of Antonescu to various Ministries, letters from Antonescu to Ribbentrop and Horia Sima, letters to Antonescu relating to the occupation of Odessa, andletters to Antonescu relating to the Iron Guard rebellion.

System of Arrangement

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed. Arranged in the following series: 1. PCM. Cabinet I. Antonescu: Soviet press clippings, administrative and organization matters, regulations, register of speeches, interviews and articles (1-3); 2. PCM. Cabinet I. Antonescu: Personal letters (Reel 3); 3. PCM. Cabinet I. Antonescu: Minutes of ministerial meetings (Reel 3-7); 4. PCM. Cabinet I. Antonescu: Reports and maps (Reel 8-9); 5. PCM. Military Cabinet: Reports, administrative orders and dispositions; letters from and to Hitler (Reel 10-14); 6. PCM. Military Cabinet: Minutes of ministerial meetings (Reel 15-19); 7. PCM. Cabinet I. Antonescu. Office or Romanization. Colonization and Inventory: Memorandums, decisions, orders and inventories of agricultural land, real state and expropriated goods (Reel 20-21); 8. PCM. Military Cabinet: Reports on German acquisitions, and war against the Soviet Union (Reel 21) 9. Cabinet I. Antonescu: Orders and dispositions by I. Antonescu; reports on Military operations on the front, conflicts between the Romanian and German military; Information Bulletins, 1942 (Reel 22-27) 10. PCM. Private Secretariat I. Antonescu: Memorandums, minutes, proposals, Investigation of Jews in Galati, reports on various nationalities and religious matters, labor work and evacuations (Reel 28-34); 11. PCM. Military Cabinet: Alert files, newsletters, the Council of Ministers minutes, correspondence and sitiational raports, records of missionaries, massacres of the Legion from Jilava and rebellion, letters to Antonescu after rebellion, 1934-1942 (Reel 35-45).

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Arhivele Naţionale ale României

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