Selected records from the collection Ministry of the Interior (Miscellaneous)
Extent and Medium
152,024 digital images, JPEG
144 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), Inventory: 2247. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection from the Romanian National Archives via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in June 2005, and March 2006.
Scope and Content
Contains police reports from various areas of Romania, as well as letters and complaints to local police, newspaper clippings, tables, telegrams, situation reports and correspondence. Documents relate to the activities and leaders of many political parties or movementsm including: Iron Guard; Agrarian Union Party; National Christian Party; Peasant Party; Everything for the Fatherland Party; and The National Front of Rebirth. Some police reports relate to activities of student organizations and movements, including Hitler Jugend, cultural organizations, and Association of Jewish Women. Other topics include: religious sects; relations with USSR; Bulgarian irredentists; relations between the Army and the population; Jewish leader Filderman; surveillance of foreigners from Germany and Hungary who applied for citizenship; diplomatic relations with other countries; abuses against Jews; references to the "Jewish problem;" occupation of Bessarabia by USSR and of Transylvania by Hungary; and postwar reports on Legionnaires who emigrated.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Arhivele Naţionale ale României
Corporate Bodies
- Hitler Youth
- Garda de Fier
Subjects
- Romania--Garda de Fier.
- Nationalism--Romania--History--20th century.
- Fascists
- Romania--Politics and government--1914-1944.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania.
- Germany.
- Antisemitism
- Romania
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Arhivele Naţionale ale României