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Selected records from the Romanian Ministry of Work, Health and Social Protection - Central Office of Romanianization (Aryanization)

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.226 | RG Number: RG-25.024M

Overview

Description: Contains records of the Central Office of Romanianization (OCR) under the Ministry of Labor, Health, and Social Welfare, concerning the “Romanianization” of personnel of various private enterprises and “doubling” the practice of retaining fired workers to teach new workers. Included also are a proposal to accelerate Romanianization, explanatory memoranda, the structure and budgetary expenses of the OCR, a draft law on the Romanianization of staff in Northern Bucovina and Bessarabia, activity reports of the OCR to the Ministry of Labor, press clippings, and requests by refugees and other ethnic Romanians to be “placed” in various jobs. It also contains OCR correspondence with governmental bodies, businesses, and private persons concerning Romanianization.
Date: inclusive: 1939-1944
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
Extent: 42,796 digital images : JPEG ; 20.8 GB.
100 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
System of Arrangement: Arrangement is chronological: Fond Ministerul Múnçii, Sānātātii si Ocrotirilor Social — Oficiul Central de Românizare, Reels 1-2: Inventar 2526 (1939-1940); Reels 2-29: Inventar 2528 (1943-1944); Reels 30-40: Inventar 2528 (1943-1944); Reels 41 -100: Inventar 2529.

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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: Fair use only. Use only for scientific purposes (not for commercial use)
Copyright Holder: Arhivele Naţionale ale României

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Romania--Politics and government--1914-1944. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania. Jews--Romania. Aryanization--Romania. Nationalism--Romania--History--20th century.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Arhivele Naţionale ale României
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Arhivele Naţionale ale României (Romanian National Archives), Inventory: 2526, 2528, 2528. 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 June 2005.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Record last modified:: 2022-07-28 18:11:13
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