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Only top-level descriptions Institutul Național pentru Studierea Holocaustului din România „Elie Wiesel” Mefkure (Ship)
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The Mefkure Tragedy: An Inquiry into the Slayer's Identity

  • RO RO/INSHR-EW 2024-12-02/1
  • Record group
  • 20th century

Contains information about the 1944 sinking of the merchant ship Mefkure which was used to transport approximately 300 Romanian Jews to Palestine. The author attempts to prove that the German military sunk the Mefkure, and not the Soviet military as was previously believed. Also contains a list of the victims' names.

Albert Finkelstein

General directorate of Passports Office records Directiunea generala a politie Paspoarte

  • RO RO/INSHR-EW 2024-12-02/28
  • Record group
  • 1939 - 1944

Contains records from the office of the General Directorate of Passports (Ministerul Administratiei si Internelor, Directia Generala de Pasapoarte) related to Jewish emigration to Palestine from Romania. Includes a name list of Romanian Jews who traveled to Palestine on the ships "Kasbek, "Mefkur," "Morina," "Selahadin," "Toros," and "Bulbul."

Ministerul Administratiei si Internelor, Directia Generala de Pasapoarte / Passport Office of the Ministry of Interior's General Directorate of Police