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Selected records relating to the Holocaust in Romania

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0334 | RG Number: RG-25.021M

Overview

Description: Contains records of the Federation of Union of Jewish Communities and the O.S.E. Bucharest branch relating to its relief and aid activities for Jews who were deported to Transnistria and those in Greater Romania. Also contains name lists of Jews originally from Transylvania and interned to the USSR, lists of orphaned children and the victims of the Iasi pogrom, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Romania information forms on families in Vaslui, Iasi and Burdeni, registration cards of deportees, newspaper clippings, album and documents containing photographs of Pogrom of Bucharest, registration cards of deportees, as well as records relating to forced labor, social assistance, and anti-Jewish measures.
Date: inclusive: 1941-2002
Credit Line: 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.

Physical Details

Language: Romanian
Genre/Form: Photographs. Albums. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Extent: 30,350 digital images : TIFF ; 9.88 GB.
106 microfilm reels ; 16 mm.
Extent: 62 boxes
2 oversize boxes
System of Arrangement: Fond III from dosar 984-1221 (some files are missing); Fond IV-one file; Fond VI-three files; Fond VII-selected files; Fond X-two files. Arrangement is thematic

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use. Fair use only.
Copyright Holder: Federația Comunităților Evreiești din România. Centrul pentru Studiul Istoriei Evreilor din România

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Romania. Jews--Romania--Registers. Jews--Romania--Transylvania. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania. Jewish communities (ushmm)
Geographic Name: Romania--Ethnic relations. Romania
Corporate Name: World Jewish Congress Union O.S.E.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Federația Comunităților Evreiești din România. Centrul pentru Studiul Istoriei Evreilor din România
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Center for the Study of the History of the Jews from Romania, Federation of Jewish Communities. The Archives received a subsequent accretions of microfilms in 1998-2000, photocopies of records in 2004 and 2005, and digital images in 2011.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Record last modified:: 2023-08-28 09:13:56
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