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  1. Selected papers of Prime Minister Hubert Pierlo in London

    Contains selected records from the papers of Hubert Pierlot, Prime Minister of the government- in-exile in London during the German occupation of Belgium, and one of the most influential representatives of his country. This collection includes records on Belgian Congo and Belgian refugees in Portugal, many of whom were Jews.

  2. Selected records from the collection of the Sub-district of Beliu from the Arad branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the sub-district of Beliu, including records related to: confiscation of Jewish properties, Iron Guard, war orphans, prayer houses for various religious groups, deportation of Jews, and Jewish goods confiscated by the state.

  3. Selected records from the collection Police Detachment of Lipova from the Arad branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Police Detachment of Lipova, including records related to the situation of Jews, propaganda, and miscellaneous items.

  4. Selected records from the collection of the Sub-district of Ineu from the Arad branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the sub-district of Ineu, including records related to the confiscation of Jewish goods, lists of deported Jews, an inventory of churches and religious groups that were permitted or prohibited, and name lists of members of Baptist, Adventists, and Unitarian churches.

  5. Selected records from the collection of the Prefecture of Police of Prahova from the Prahova branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Prefecture police of Prahova, including correspondence and a list of goods taken by the police from the Iron Guard (Garda de Fier).

  6. Selected records from the collections of the Mehedinţi branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains records from Orsova, consisting of records related to requests and changes of citizenship, firing of Jews, expropriation of Jewish properties -- including orders and lists of names.

  7. Selected records from the collection of the Prefectura of Muscel from the Argeş branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains selected records from the Prefectura of Muscel and the sub-district of Campulung-Muscel and includes records relating to confiscation of Jewish properties, deportation of Jews, and indexes of Romanian women married to Jews. As well as records from the Regional Inspectorate of Police Piteşti, including orders and reports, and the personal file of Israel Schif. Also includes records from the Legion of Gendarmes Muscel and includes records relating to: surveillance of religious groups, name lists of gendarmerie informants, surveillance of Iron Guard, name lists of deported Jews, and w...

  8. Selected records from the collections of the Ialomiţa branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Democratic Jewish Committee (CDE) of Calarasi, and includes records relating to support for Jewish citizens and reports of activities of CDE. Includes also records from the sub-district of Slobozia, including records relating to the confiscation of goods of Iron Guard movement, instructions regarding registration of Jews, and forced labor of Jews.

  9. Kleinberg family papers

    The Kleinberg family papers comprises postcards and letters written between the members of the Kleinberg family from 1939 until 1945. The majority of the correspondence is between the Kleinberg siblings and their immediate families, with the many of the letters coming from Zofia Minder in Krakow and Lola Schifeldrim, a close family friend who worked for Irena’s husband, Ferdynand Keiner and assisted Roman’s wife and daughters. Several of the postcards are written from a Soviet work camp, many of which are from Roman and Izydor. A majority of the postcards and letters have messages from mult...

  11. Selected records from collections of the Harghita branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Mayorship of the town Miercurea Ciuc relating to the administration of Jewish goods. Also included in this collection are records from the Mayorship of the town Gheorgheni relating to: the dismantling of Hehalutz, “All for the Fatherland” (Iron Guard), authorizations for meetings of the Jewish community, Christian faith among Jews, prohibiting Jewish commerce, goods from Jewish deportees, war criminals and their goods, real estate remaining from deported Jews. Also includes records from the democratic Jewish Committee (CDE) of the district of Ciuc relating to biogr...

  12. Selected records from collections of the Caraş-Severin branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains records from the sub-district of Bozovici and includes records relating to the confiscation of Baptist prayer houses. Also includes records from the Police commissariat of Anina relating to orders concerning the capture of war criminals and thieves, goods of war criminals, and real estate. Also contains records from the Police commissariat of Orsova relating to orders concerning prohibition of peasants/ farmers to enter Jewish homes, and records from the Police from Baile Herculane of orders concerning German and Hungarian minorities, Hungarian terrorists, German spies, forced labo...

  13. Selected records from the collections of the Maramureş branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Prefecture of the District of Maramureş including orders of the Ministries of Interior and Defense concerning the rights of Jews, as well as the approval from the Ministry of Interior for the activites of a Mizrahi Zionist organization in Sighet. Also contains documents concerning bandits from Viseul de Sus.

  14. Selected records from the National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives (CNSAS)

    Records relating to the surveillance of Iron Guardists, 1945-1959; Protestant churches, 1920-1945; Freemasons; Jewish organizations, 1924-1952; and Zionists.The emigration of Jews to Palestine, 1941-1943; other files on Jewish emigration, 1939-1944, wartime surveillance of ethnic Germans, wartime occupation of Northern Transylvania. Seven files (CNSAS 11-1) documentation of Communist secret police surveillance of people connected to wartime crimes in Vasiliorka-Tulcin and in Mostovi, Berezovka, and Transnistria. Includes lists of officers in the Romanian Army before and after 1944, lists of...

  15. Records of the Jewish Democratic Committee Association of Widows and War Orphans (IOVR)

    Consists of interviews conducted by the Jewish Democratic Committee’s Association of Widows and War Orphans (IOVR) with the Holocaust survivors after the war.

  16. Records of the World Jewish Congress in Romania

    World Jewish Congress census of Holocaust survivors in Romania in 1945; documents on the persecution of Jews under the Antonescu regime, deportations of Jews from Transylvania, forced labor, and other subjects (an inquiry into Adalbert Kallay); a list of administrators of property “Romanianized” from Jews.

  18. Marek family collection

    Consists of copies of scanned letters, documents, photographs, identification paperwork, and travel documentation related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war life of Antonina Milgrom Marek (also known as Tauba), originally of Warsaw, Poland. Includes pre-war correspondence to family in the United States, post-war identity cards documenting her life in a refugee camp in Great Britain and her marriage to Kazimierz Marek.

  19. Loew family postcards

    Consists of five postcards written from the Lwow ghetto in 1942 by the Loew family to their daughter, who was living in France.

  20. Selected records of the Unitarian Service Committee and the Universalist Service Committee

    Contains selected records of the Unitarian Service Committee and Universalist Service Committee relating to relief efforts and assistance to Jewish and non-Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution before, during and after World War II in a number of countries throughout the world, including France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, England, Switzerland, and Portugal. The collection includes mainly correspondence, reports, case files, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia, posters, and clippings related to the humanitarian work of the Unitarian and Universalist Service Committees, ...