Record group 2024-12-02/24 - Romanian forced labor camps

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Reference code

RO RO/INSHR-EW 2024-12-02/24

Title

Romanian forced labor camps

Date(s)

  • 1942 - 1943 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

70,511 pages of photocopies, 956 microfiche,

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Archival history

Source of acquisition is the Ministerul Apărării Naționale, Romania (Ministry of National Defence). Gift presented by the Minister of Defense, Ioan Mircea Pascu, to Sara Bloomfield. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the records in June 2001 via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Program. Additional two parts of documents received in Apr. 2003, ca. 70 000 pages of photocopies. The ca. 70,000 photocopied pages were transferred to an archive in Romania in Feb. 2004 through the International Archives Program. A copy of this RG was donated to INSH RO by USHMM in 2006.

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

Contains orders and instructions concerning the forced labor of Jews, inspection and screening of Jews for work, medical assistance for Jews, name lists of Jews, and miscellaneous correspondence regarding forced labor, food, equipment and housing. Documents range in date from November 3, 1942 to April 2, 1942.

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Organization is thematic

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Copyright Holder: Romania. Ministerul Apărării Naționale

Language of material

  • Romanian

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Existence and location of originals

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Romania. Ministerul Apărării Naționale

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Language(s)

  • English

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