Romanian forced labor camps

Identifier
irn509397
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.97
  • RG-25.011
Dates
1 Jan 1942 - 31 Dec 1943
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Romanian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn509397

Extent and Medium

70,511 pages of photocopies,

956 microfiche,

Archival History

Romania. Ministerul Apărării Naționale

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 Ministerul Apărării Naționale, Romania (Ministry of National Defence). Gift presented by the Minister of Defense, Ioan Mircea Pascu, to Sara Bloomfield. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the records in June 2001 via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Program. Additional two parts of documents received in Apr. 2003, ca. 70 000 pages of photocopies. The ca. 70,000 photocopied pages were transferred to an archive in Romania in Feb. 2004 through the International Archives Program.

Scope and Content

Contains orders and instructions concerning the forced labor of Jews, inspection and screening of Jews for work, medical assistance for Jews, name lists of Jews, and miscellaneous correspondence regarding forced labor, food, equipment and housing. Documents range in date from November 3, 1942 to April 2, 1942.

System of Arrangement

Organization is thematic

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Romania. Ministerul Apărării Naționale

Subjects

  • Forced labor--Romania--History--20th century.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Romania.
  • Romania--Politics and government--1914-1944.
  • Jews--Government policy--Romania--History.

Genre

  • Document
  • Registers.
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.

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