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- 1940 - 1944 (Creation)
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34 microfilm reels, 35 mm
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Source of acquisition is the Arhivele Naţionale ale României (National Archives of Romania), Fond 764.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Programs Division in Dec. 2001.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
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.
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Scope and content
Records of the military cabinet of Ion Antonescu. Topics covered include the persecution and deportation of Jews, confiscation of Jewish properties, and military actions against partisans. There are also secret police records relating to the Romanian withdrawal from Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina in 1940, as the USSR occupied these regions. Microfilms accreted in 2013 contain various correspondence of Antonescu with Hitler, Maniu, Horia Sima, as well as reports on Iron Guard and communist activities, SSI reports, decision of Antonescu relating to the "Jewish problem," decision of Antonescu relating to communists, correspondence with General Schobert, correspondence between the General Staff of the Army with the German military mission, orders of Antonescu to various Ministries, letters from Antonescu to Ribbentrop and Horia Sima, letters to Antonescu relating to the occupation of Odessa, andletters to Antonescu relating to the Iron Guard rebellion.
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System of arrangement
The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed. Arranged in the following series: 1. PCM. Cabinet I. Antonescu: Soviet press clippings, administrative and organization matters, regulations, register of speeches, interviews and articles (1-3); 2. PCM. Cabinet I. Antonescu: Personal letters (Reel 3); 3. PCM. Cabinet I. Antonescu: Minutes of ministerial meetings (Reel 3-7); 4. PCM. Cabinet I. Antonescu: Reports and maps (Reel 8-9); 5. PCM. Military Cabinet: Reports, administrative orders and dispositions; letters from and to Hitler (Reel 10-14); 6. PCM. Military Cabinet: Minutes of ministerial meetings (Reel 15-19); 7. PCM. Cabinet I. Antonescu. Office or Romanization. Colonization and Inventory: Memorandums, decisions, orders and inventories of agricultural land, real state and expropriated goods (Reel 20-21); 8. PCM. Military Cabinet: Reports on German acquisitions, and war against the Soviet Union (Reel 21) 9. Cabinet I. Antonescu: Orders and dispositions by I. Antonescu; reports on Military operations on the front, conflicts between the Romanian and German military; Information Bulletins, 1942 (Reel 22-27) 10. PCM. Private Secretariat I. Antonescu: Memorandums, minutes, proposals, Investigation of Jews in Galati, reports on various nationalities and religious matters, labor work and evacuations (Reel 28-34); 11. PCM. Military Cabinet: Alert files, newsletters, the Council of Ministers minutes, correspondence and sitiational raports, records of missionaries, massacres of the Legion from Jilava and rebellion, letters to Antonescu after rebellion, 1934-1942 (Reel 35-45).
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Copyright Holder: Arhivele Naţionale ale României
Language of material
- Romanian
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Arhivele Naţionale ale României
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- Prime ministers--Romania--History--20th century.
- Romania
- Executive departments
- Moghilev (Romania)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Romania.
- Odessa (Ukraine)
- Romania--Politics and government--1914-1944.
- Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Romania.
- Transnistria (Ukraine : Territory under German and Romanian occupation, 1941-1944)
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Romania--Registers.
- Polish people--Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)--History--20th century.
- Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)--Ethnic relations.
- Jewish property--Romania--Registers.
- Romani Genocide, 1939-1945.
- Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ (Ukraine)
- Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine)
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania--History.
- Ukrainians--Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Romania.
- Jews--Romania--History--20th century.
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Name access points
- Sṭrumah (Ship) (Subject)
- Antonescu, Ion, 1882-1946. (Subject)
- Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 1893-1946. (Subject)
- Goering, Hermann, 1893-1946. (Subject)
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945. (Subject)
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- English