Selected records from collections of the Bihor branch of the Romanian National Archives

Identifier
irn524127
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2007.94
  • RG-25.042M
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1953
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Romanian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn524127

Extent and Medium

23,040 digital images, JPEG

37 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.

Source of acquisition is the Arhivele Naţionale ale României (Romanian National Archives), Bihor branch. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection from the Romanian National Archives via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in May 2007 (Microfilm reel 1-6), in May 2009 (microfilm reel 7-11), in May 2010 (Microfilm reel 12-25), in 2011(Microfilm reel 26-36), and in Nov. 2013 (Microfilm reel 37).

Scope and Content

Contains information on the numbers of Jews killed in rural areas of Romania; investigations of Nazis, Iron Guards, and Hungarians by the inspectorate of gendarmerie of Oradea; correspondence of the gendarmerie in Bihor regarding the treatment of Jews, the handling of war criminals and the Iron Guard, Jewish emigration to Palestine, and the treatment of Jews and Romanians by the Hungarians. Police records on the surveillance and/or arrest of individuals in Oradea by order of the new people’s court, information on the internment of ethnic Germans and SS, name lists of Jews and members of the Red Cross in the town of Oradea. Correspondence of the Bihor branch of the Jewish Democratic Committee and other miscellaneous documents on Jews in the prefecture.

System of Arrangement

Organized in the following order: Reel 1: Fond Inspectoratul de Jandarmi Oradea, 1932-1949. No. 22, Inv. 31, File 53/1945, File 55/1945-1946; Reel 2: Fond Legiunea de Jandarmi Bihor, 1931-1949. No. 48, Inv. 32, File 12/1944, 43/1944, 68/1946, 25/1947; Reel 3: Fond Chestura Poliţiei municipiului Oradea. 1921-1951, No. 23, Inv. 36, File 33/1945; Reel 4: Fond Primăria municipiului Oradea. 1941-1950, No. 8, Inv. 97, File 1/1941, 15/1941, 12/1942, 24/1942, 4/1944, 1/1944, 9/1944, 13/1944, 14/1944, 15/1944, 16/1944, 1/1945, 18/1946; Reel 5, 6: Fond Prefectura Judeţului Bihor,1935-1943. No. 12, Inv.?, File 86/1939, 12/1941, 15/1941, 29/1941, 40/1941, 42/1941, 46/1941, 55/1942, 57/1942, 78/1942, File 91/1942Ù; Reel 7: Parchetul General al Curţii de Apel Oradea, File 31/1946; Reel 8: Curtea de Apel Oradea - Cabinetul Presintelai, Files 119/1938, 212/1944; Reel 9: Parchetul Curţii Maghiare Oradea, File 483/1945; Reel 10: Parchetul General Curţii de Apel Arad-Oradea, File 20/1941; Reel 11: Legiunea de jandarmi Bihor, Files 45/1944, 23/1945, 65/1945; Reel 12 -25: Fond Comitetul Judeţean al Comunităti Democratice Eveieşti Bihor-Oradea, 1945-1953. Fond 1037, Inv. 1302; Reel 26-27: Fond Inspectoratul Regional de Poliţie Oradea. 1944-1949. Fond nr. 53, Inv. nr. 34; Reel 28-30: Fond Inspectoratul de Jandarmi Oradea. 1932-1949. Fond nr. 22; Reel 31 - 34: Fond Liceul Evreiesc “Kecskeméti Lipót” Oradea. 1920-1944,Fond nr. 1094; Reel 35: Fond Chestura Poliţiei municipiului Oradea. 1921-1951, Fond nr. 23. Reel 36: Fond Şcoala primară izraelită Marghita. 1905-1944, Fond nr. 665; Reel 37: Fond Primăria municipiului Oradea. Mayor of Oradea, 1941-1950.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Arhivele Naţionale ale României

Corporate Bodies

  • Comitetul Democratic Evreiesc
  • Garda de Fier

Subjects

  • Bihor (Romania)--Ethnic relations.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Romania.
  • War crime trials--Romania.
  • Romania--Emigration and immigration.
  • War criminals--Romania.
  • Hungarians--Romania--Societies, etc.
  • Jews--Romania--Societies, etc.--Registers.
  • Oradea (Romania)--Ethnic relations--Registers.
  • Romania--Politics and government--1914-1944.
  • Palestine--Emigration and immigration.

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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