Centrala Evreilor
Extent and Medium
21,302 digital images, JPEG
21 microfilm reels (digitized), 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.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project acquired microfilm copies from the Arhivele Naţionale ale României (Romanian National Archives) and transfered the film to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Jan. 2003.
Scope and Content
Contains correspondence, requests, and reports from the Jewish Center in Romania. Correspondence relates to forced labor camps in various places in Bucharest, Romania, and Jewish schools including a list of 42 women at forced labor at Institutul Central de Statistica. Some letters addressed to Radu Lecca by Nandor Gingold concern requests of exemption from forced labor for various Jews. Other requests concern the special taxes for Jews and Centrala's inspection in Transnistria. Correspondence of Filderman relates to Jewish doctors from 1941 to 1943. Collection also includes information concerning Noua Organizatie Sionista and miscellaneous letters related to special taxes, correspondence with the branch in Cernauti, Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), certificates for rabbis, forced labor, cloth and shoes for poor Jews, Jewish hospitals, confiscation of buildings, aid for poor Jews, correspondence concerning the census of Jews, requests for authorizations allowing Jews to travel by train, financialaid sent to Jews in Transnistria, aid to orphans in Transnistria, aid to needy Jews in Romania, deportations to Transnistria, papers of the Centrala Evreilor din România branch in Hunedoara, Romania, Jewish schools and hospitals, authorizations for Jews to work in their professions from 1942 to 1944.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Arhivele Naţionale ale României
People
- Lecca, Radu, 1890-1980.
- Filderman, W. (Wilhelm), 1882-1963.
- Gingold, Nandor.
Corporate Bodies
- Centrala Evreilor din România
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Romania.
- Romania.
- Transnistria (Ukraine : Territory under German and Romanian occupation, 1941-1944)
- Zionism--Romania.
- Research institutes
- Jews--Romania--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Romania.
- Jewish physicians--Romania.
- Jewish orphans--Romania.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Romania.
- Forced labor--Romania.
- Romania--Politics and government--1914-1944.
Genre
- Reports.
- Certificates.
- Correspondence.
- Document
Copies
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