Selected records of the Cluj Branch of the Romanian National Archives
Extent and Medium
16,909 digital images, JPEG
38 microfilm reels, 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.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project acquired microfilm copies from the Arhivele Naţionale ale României (Romanian National Archives) and transferred the microfilms to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in June 2003 (Microfilm reels 1- 9). Additional records were accreted in June 2007 (Microfilm reels 10-17), May 2010 (Microfilm reels 18-31), Jan. 2011 (Microfilm reels 32-35), and March 2011 (Microfilm reels 36-38).
Scope and Content
Includes selected fragments of transcripts from war crimes trials held in Cluj, Romania, from 1944 to 1945, documents from the Inspectoratul de jandarmi, Inspectoratul de politie (including police reports from Cluj, Turda, Abrud, Aiud, Dej, Huedin, Zalau, Alba Iulia), and Parchetul General, Prefuctura judetului, Tinutul, Parchetul General Maghiar, and Pretura plasii Cluj, and a few documents from the Prefectura judetului Somes and the Jandarmeria judetului Turda. Most are status reports, requests, transcripts of trials, and police/gendarmes reports on everything from Zionist and Legionary movements to Hungarian irredentism.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Arhivele Naţionale ale României
Subjects
- Cluj (Romania)
- Huedin (Romania)
- War crime trials--Romania.
- War crimes--Romania.
- Romania--Politics and government--1944-1989.
- Aiud (Romania)
- Romania--Politics and government--1914-1944.
- Abrud (Romania)
- Tinutul (Romania)
- Jews--Romania--History--20th century.
- Zalau (Romania)
- Alba Iulia (Romania)
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Romania.
- Turda (Romania)
- Dej (Romania)
Genre
- Transcripts.
- Reports.
- Document
Copies
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