Selected records of the General Inspectorate of the Gendarmerie in the Romanian National Archives

Identifier
irn508297
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.A.0093
  • RG-25.010M
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Romanian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn508297

Extent and Medium

25,709 digital images, JPEG

31 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Archival History

Arhivele Naţionale ale României

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 Arhivele Naţionale ale României (Romanian National Archives), Fond Inspectoratul General al Jandarmeriei. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in January 1999, and accretion in 2012.

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.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Arhivele Naţionale ale României

People

  • Beck, Józef, 1894-1944.
  • Larionescu, Ion.

Subjects

  • Poles--Romania.
  • Romanies--Romania.
  • Soroca (Romania : Judet)
  • Refugees, Jewish--Romania.
  • Berezove (Zakarpatsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
  • Transnistria (Ukraine : Territory under German and Romanian occupation, 1941-1944)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Romania.
  • Massacres--Romania.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Romania--Registers.
  • Romania--Politics and government--1914-1944.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania.
  • Romani Genocide, 1939-1945--Romania.

Genre

  • Document
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