Jewish Community of Romania Comunitati Evreiesti din Romana
Extent and Medium
21,761 digital images, JPEG
20 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.
Source of acquisition is the Arhivele Naţionale ale României (National Archives of Romania). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in Sept. 2015.
Scope and Content
Records of the Jewish communities from Focșani, Bucharest, Giurgiu, Botoșani, Ploiești, Bîrlad, etc. and some Zionist organizations. Records reflect the situation of Jews from Bessarabia and Bucovina, discriminatory policies implemented by the government of Romania such as closing businesses, expropriation of properties, internment in camps, the situation of Jews in the Golta region, emigration of Jews from Romania, repatriation of Jews interned in camps in Transnistria, Germany, and Poland, and aid activities to Jews by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or other Jewish organizations abroad, the emigration of Jews to Israel, and the activities of the Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities and the Jewish Democratic Committee.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in three series in chronological order: 1. Activities of Jewish organization in Romania, 1818-1940; 2. Records of discriminatory policies towards Jews, 1940-1945; 3. Jewish emigration and immigration and activities of the Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities and the Jewish Democratic Committee, 1945-1949.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Arhivele Naţionale ale României
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- Comitetul Democratic Evreiesc
Subjects
- Ploiești (Romania)
- Bucharest (Romania)
- Focșani (Romania)
- Botoșani (Romania)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania--Transylvania.
- Bîrlad (Romania)
- Romania
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Romania.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Romania--History--Registers.
- Jewish communities (ushmm)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Romania.
- Giurgiu (Romania)
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Registers.
- Reports.
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Arhivele Naţionale ale României