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Date(s)
- 1939 - 1945 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
31 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in January 1999. 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. Source of acquisition is the Arhivele Naţionale ale României (Romanian National Archives), Fond Inspectoratul General al Jandarmeriei.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Collections contains police, gendarmerie, and intelligence reports, name lists, and correspondence. Documents relate to the situation of Polish refugees in Romania (e.g. Colonel Joseph Beck and other Polish dignitaries), also relate to the Zionists, members of ethnic minorities, and to the internal situation in various counties in Romania, in Northern Bukovina, and in Bessarabia under Soviet occupation. Records include name list of "anti-Romanian" persons, name list of 1610 persons who requested repartitions to the Soviet Union in 1941, diverse correspondence from gendarmerie in Soroca, Bessarabia (now Romania), police reports from Berezove (Berezovka), Ukraine, on the murder of 4,000 Jews by German police. Collection also consists of reports on the deportation of Roma to Transnistria, intelligence reports from Odessa, Ukraine, on Communist partisan activities, and some clippings from Romanian newspapers.
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Conditions of access and use area
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Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Holder: Arhivele Naţionale ale României
Language of material
- Romanian
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Arhivele Naţionale ale României
Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
- Soroca (Romania : Judet)
- Poles--Romania.
- Romanies--Romania.
- Romani Genocide, 1939-1945--Romania.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Romania--Registers.
- Transnistria (Ukraine : Territory under German and Romanian occupation, 1941-1944)
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Romania.
- Berezove (Zakarpatsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania.
- Massacres--Romania.
- Refugees, Jewish--Romania.
- Romania--Politics and government--1914-1944.
Place access points
Name access points
- Beck, Józef, 1894-1944. (Subject)
- Larionescu, Ion. (Subject)
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Language(s)
- English