Institutul Național pentru Studierea Holocaustului din România „Elie Wiesel”

The inauguration of the INSHR-EW took place on October 10, 2005, on the occasion of the second commemoration of the National Victims’ Day of the Holocaust in Romania.
The Institute’s object of activity is the identification, collection, archiving, research, and publication of documents related to the Holocaust, in solving some scientific problems, as well as developing and implementing educational programs regarding this historical phenomenon.

The National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania “Elie Wiesel” offers access to the general public interested in the subject, as well as to historians or researchers in the field, a documentary archive with over 1.5 million microfilmed pages from the public archives of the state institutions involved in the preparation and carrying out of the destruction Jews from Romania.

Our archive includes over 1.5 million microfilmed pages collected from the public archives of the state institutions involved in the preparation and carrying out of the destruction Jews from Romania. In 2006 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum offered copies of their Holocaust documents regarding to the fate of Romanian Jews and Roma.