Record group 2024-12-02/23 - Selected records from collections of the Bacău branch of the Romanian National Archives

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RO RO/INSHR-EW 2024-12-02/23

Title

Selected records from collections of the Bacău branch of the Romanian National Archives

Date(s)

  • 1921 - 1953 (Creation)

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89 microfilm reels, 35 mm

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Archival history

Source of acquisition is the Arhivele Naţionale ale României (Romanian National Archives), Bacău branch. Records were generated by the Bacău district prefecture, the Mayor of Bacău, and the Bacău police. 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 July 2006. 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 selected records, concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. Includes records from the Jewish communities of the following localities: Bacău (from 1935 to 1950), and Moineşti, and Tg. Ocna (from prewar to 1945). Records include memos, inventories of assets, budgets, donations, local Jewish newspapers, publications, school correspondence, a census of Jewish children, health correspondence, the Jewish theater, aid to the poor, aid to the sick, aid to students, aid for pesach, a history of the Jewish community written in 1942, the situation of rabbis and the condition of synagogs; issues of Jewish citizenship, special taxes on Jews, antisemitic propaganda, and local and general elections; forced Jewish labor, name lists of those sent to forced labor, name lists of Jews who worked as forced labor for German military units, name lists of Jews who were deported, and Jews who died in the war at the front; aid to refugees from Bessarabia and Bukovina, requests for aid, correspondence with the US, aid to Jews who returned from Transnistria, and correspondence with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

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Organized in the following order: Fond nr. 17, Inv. nr. 1395: Prefectura judeţului Bacău. 1838-1950; Fond nr. 19, Inv. nr. 1654: Primăria oraşului Bacău. 1931-1950; Fond nr. 19, Inv. nr. 1657: Primăria oraşului Bacău. 1938-1950; Fond nr. 602, Inv. nr. 2037: Poliţia oraşului Bacău. 1896-1950; Fond nr. 9, Inv. nr. 2046: Comunitatea Evreilor Bacău. 1907-1950; Fond nr. 814, Inv. nr. 2056: Comunitatea Evreilor Moineşti. 1939-1945; Fond nr. 813, Inv. nr. 2057: Comunitatea Evreilor Tg. Ocna. 1932-1945 Arrangement is thematic

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Copyright Holder: Arhivele Naţionale ale României

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  • Romanian

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Existence and location of originals

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Arhivele Naţionale ale României

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Language(s)

  • English

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