Record group 2024-12-02/18 - Selected records from the collection Ministry of the Interior (Miscellaneous)

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RO RO/INSHR-EW 2024-12-02/18

Title

Selected records from the collection Ministry of the Interior (Miscellaneous)

Date(s)

  • 1910 - 1957 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

142 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

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Archival history

Source of acquisition is the Arhivele Naţionale ale României (Romanian National Archives), Inventory: 2247. 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. 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 police reports from various areas of Romania, as well as letters and complaints to local police, newspaper clippings, tables, telegrams, situation reports and correspondence. Documents relate to the activities and leaders of many political parties or movementsm including: Iron Guard; Agrarian Union Party; National Christian Party; Peasant Party; Everything for the Fatherland Party; and The National Front of Rebirth. Some police reports relate to activities of student organizations and movements, including Hitler Jugend, cultural organizations, and Association of Jewish Women. Other topics include: religious sects; relations with USSR; Bulgarian irredentists; relations between the Army and the population; Jewish leader Filderman; surveillance of foreigners from Germany and Hungary who applied for citizenship; diplomatic relations with other countries; abuses against Jews; references to the "Jewish problem;" occupation of Bessarabia by USSR and of Transylvania by Hungary; and postwar reports on Legionnaires who emigrated.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

Arrangement is thematic

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Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright Holder: Arhivele Naţionale ale României

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 Arhivele Naţionale ale României

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Language(s)

  • English

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