Selected records from collections of the Mureş branch of the Romanian National Archives
Extent and Medium
21 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.
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), Mureş Branch; Inventory: 57, 189, 309, 310, 415, 459, 884, 1110, 1323. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in June 2005 (Reel #1-19), May 2010 (Reel #20), and November 2015 Reel #21).
Scope and Content
Includes records concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. Contains orders to arrest war criminals, investigations into alleged war criminals, surveillance of nomadic Romanies, reports on deportation of Jews to Auschwitz, military taxes owed by Jews, surveillance of the Iron Guards, confiscation of Jewish property, treatment of arrested British and American POWs, and correspondence concerning the "Jewish problem." The collection contains selected records from the Legion of Gendarmes of Mures̜, the Mayoralty of Tirgu-Mures̜, the Prefecture of Mures district, the Prefecture of Târnava Mare, the Commissariat of Police in Reghin district, and from various other Gendarmerie headquarters. It also includes selected postwar records of the Jewish Democratic Committees of Tárnaveni in the districts of Tárnava Mică and Mureş, and containing one file concerns orders and regulations about expropriation from Jews and Bulgarians in 1941.
System of Arrangement
The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed. Arranged in the following series: 1. Legiunea de jandarmi a judeţului Mureş, 1945-1949. nr. inv. 57 (Reel 1-7); 2. Avocatura Statului Târnava Mare, 1922-1944. nr. inv. 309 75 u.a.; aranjate de la 1 la 75. (Reel 7); 3. Legiunea de jandarmi Târnava Mare, 1933-1949. nr. inv. 330 (Reel 8-9); 4. Prefectura Judeţului Mureş. Prefect, 1942-1944. nr. inv. 459 (Reel 9-17); 5. Comisariatul de Poliţie Reghin, 1944-1949.nr. inv. 884 (Reel 17-19); 6. Prefectura judeţului Târnava Mare, 1921-1944. Inv. nr. 415 (Reel 20-21).
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Arhivele Naţionale ale României
Corporate Bodies
- Comitetul Democratic Evreiesc
Subjects
- Romania--Politics and government--1914-1944.
- Dileu Vechi (Romania : Județ)
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, British.
- Chiheru (Romania : Județ)
- Căpuşu de Câmpie (Romania : Județ)
- Târnava Mare (Romania)
- Batoş (Romania : Județ)
- Dămieni (Romania : Județ)
- War criminals--Romania--History--20th century.
- Acățari (Romania : Județ)
- Daia (Romania)
- Deda (Romania : Județ)
- Bulgarians--Romania--History--20th century.
- Criş (Romania : Județ)
- Romanies--Romania--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, American.
- Teaca (Romania)
- Bilbor (Romania : Județ)
- Harghita (Romania : Județ)
- Saschiz (Romania : Județ)
- Tárnava Mică (Romania)
- Gălăuţaş (Romania : Județ)
- Ernei (Romania : Județ)
- Vânători (Romania : Județ)
- Tîrgu-Mureș (Romania)
- Dumbrăveni (Romania)
- Râciu (Dâmboviţa County, Romania)
- World War, 1939 -1945--Confiscations and contributions--Romania.
- Corunca (Romania : Județ)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Romania.
- Nationalism--Romania--History--20th century.
- Mureş (Romania : Județ)
- Sângeorgiu de Pădure (Romania : Județ)
- Damien.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania.
- Tárnaveni (Romania)
- Şincai (Romania : Județ)
Genre
- Reports.
- Correspondence.
- Minutes.
- Registers.
- Document
Copies
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