The folder contains the minutes for meetings of the welfare department of the Jewish Council as well as the board; charts of requisitioned property - primarily linens and bedding - from Bucharest communities; and report summaries from communities across the country regarding rabbis who had been exempted from forced labor.
This folder appears to have been created by the welfare branch of the Jewish council. There are hundreds of communications regarding sums transferred to various locations in Transnistria. But the material also contains correspondence (requests, messages, announcements of money transfer) between branches in Tranyslvania and elsewhere in the country.
The documents include handwritten biographical notes of several men in leadership positions in the Czernowitz Jewish community and other memos from and to the central offices in Bucharest regarding the Jewish census and other administrative matters.
The Jewish Council of Romania was the official body representing the Jewish community from 1941-1944. This collection contains material dating 1942-1944. There is no indication in the Romanian language inventory at the National Archives regarding the year or circumstances of acquisition. There is also no information regarding whether this material represents the complete files of the Council or whether there may be additional material in different repositories. The Leo Baeck Institute surveyed individual folders with material related to Bukovina and Transylvania. Many of these files dealt with communities and individuals in Bukovina, including significant material concerning those deported to Transnistria. For details on these individual folders, please click any link below. The Romanian-language inventory is available online here.