Czernowitz Oblast Archives records

Identifier
irn508286
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0080
  • RG-31.006M
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Romanian
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

36,864 digital images, JPEG

37 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Archival History

Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Chernivet︠s︡ʹkoï oblasti

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Chernivet︠s︡ʹkoï oblasti (Chernivtsi Oblast State Archive). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in 1994.

Scope and Content

Contains various documents relating to ghettoization and other forms of persecution against Jews in Czernowitz (Chernivtsi). Records relate to the Romanian occupation of the city of Czernovitz and the surrounding territory by the Romanian military. Subjects include the establishment and maintenance of a wide variety of ghettos and labor camps, the administration of the occupied territory by city and regional administrative agencies, the activities of various police agencies, the confiscation and disposition of Jewish property, and census (name lists) of Jews and others, the individual case files of Jews accused of and punished for infractions of ghetto rules and regulations, deportations to camps, the wearing of the yellow star, the forced labor of Jews, the return of Jews from camps, the Dorohoi deportations, and the denunciations of Jews and communists.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Chernivet︠s︡ʹkoï oblasti

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.