Records of the World Jewish Congress in Romania
Extent and Medium
67,817 digital images, JPEG
2 DVDs,
Creator(s)
- World Jewish Congress
Biographical History
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) is an international organization founded by resolution of the First World jewish Congress, which took place in August 1936 in Geneva. The organization goal is to defend the political, social, and economic rights of Jews throughout the world. Its governing bodies were elected at the First World Jewish Congress: the executive committee headed by Stephen Wise (also the organization’s chairman), an administrative committee, headed by Nahum Goldman, and a central council headed by Louis Lipsky. At the first session of the executive committee, Sept. 6, 1936, it was decided to establish regional offices of the WJC in Geneva, New York, and London, and a central bureau in Paris. The central bureau coordinated the WJC’s work, collected information on the situation of Jews in various countries, published materials, and also lobbied at the League of Nations. In 1940, with the Second World War under way, the central bureau was transferred to New York, and a European office was established in London.
Archival History
Federația Comunităților Evreiești din România. Centrul pentru Studiul Istoriei Evreilor din România
Acquisition
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 Federația Comunităților Evreiești din România. Centrul pentru Studiul Istoriei Evreilor din România in Bucharest. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in March 2009.
Scope and Content
Contains sixteen-page family questionnaires distributed by the World Jewish Congress in Arad, Birlad, Botoşani, Brăila, Bucharest, Burdujeni, Carei, Cluj, Constanţa, Galaţi, Iasį, Oradea, Rădăuţi, Roman, Timişoara, and Vaslui. Forms include name, address, date and place of birth, occupation/profession, education, and details of persecution under the Antonescu regime (as well as deportations from Transylvania to German-occupied Poland).
System of Arrangement
Records arranged by geographical area.
People
- Antonescu, Ion, 1882-1946.
Corporate Bodies
- World Jewish Congress
Subjects
- Botoșani (Romania)
- Galați (Romania)
- Bucharest (Romania)
- Carei (Romania)
- Stamora Română (Romania)
- Iași (Romania)
- Oradea (Romania)
- Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
- Brăila (Romania)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Romania.
- Rădăuți (Romania)
- Arad (Romania)
- Constanța (Romania)
- Bîrlad (Romania)
- Vaslui (Romania : Județ)
- Jews--Persecutions--Romania.
- Transnistria (Ukraine : Territory under German and Romanian occupation, 1941-1944)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Romania.
- Jews--Romania--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 Confiscations and contributions Romania.
- Timișoara (Romania)
Genre
- Document
- Questionnaires.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Federația Comunităților Evreiești din România. Centrul pentru Studiul Istoriei Evreilor din România