This folder contains a variety of documents related to individuals deported to Transnistria. Primarily the documents are requests from family members who remained in Romania for their deported relatives to be returned to the country. There are also some notes and memos regarding sums of money sent to deportees. The requests from family members for their relatives to be restored provide various details about the deportee, the circumstances surrounding their deportation, and the material circumstances of the author of the letter. Frequently various civil records are included such as birth certificates.
This entry is for multiple folders; each contains registration forms for a woman or women from Făgăraș recording their occupation and requesting exemption from forced labor. The women in these folders were employed by the Jewish women's organization. The documents may include birth details, occupational details, various references and recommendations, and often a photo of the individual. For the names of individuals applying, please see the National Archives online guide to this collection (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B54MeDlSJl3IMXVrTkFLMEhtVXM, only in Romanian) and consult the folder (dosar) number listed under the call number.
This folder contains two charts. One is from the Sighișoara Jewish community and contains the names of individuals with permits exempting them from forced labor. The chart includes the names, company for which they work and position, number of family members, salary, and other comments. The second chart is from the Mediaș Jewish community and is a list of individuals with professional licenses/permits. It is not clear whether this term was meant to be synonymous with permits exempting them from forced labor. The information recorded is the same as the chart from Sighișoara: name, company, position, salary, family members, other comments, but the list is over three times as long (135 from Mediaș, 40 from Sighișoara), though the Jewish population of Mediaș was larger than Sighișoara.
This entry is for multiple folders; each contains the paperwork for an individual from Sighișoara petitioning to be allowed to exercise their profession (with the support of their employer) and/or to be exempted from forced labor. The documents may include birth details, occupational details, various references and recommendations, and often a photo of the individual. For the names of individuals applying, please see the National Archives online guide to this collection (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B54MeDlSJl3IMXVrTkFLMEhtVXM, only in Romanian) and consult the folder (dosar) number listed under the call number.
Please note that the title of this folder is misleading, as the list is quite short (less than 100 names) and includes only Jews from the four villages of Vicov de Sus, Putna, Falcău, and Brodina. The charts are not dated nor is it clear who created them or to what purpose. It is also unclear whether "evacuation" was meant as a euphemism for deportation or forced relocation and when the so-called evacuation took place. Included in the charts are the names (head of family and family members), age, gender, town/village from which the person came, profession, and value of goods left behind.
This folder contains budget reports, charts, and related correspondence from the Jewish communities in Brașov (both Neologue and Orthodox) as well as from some of their ancillary organizations (women's organization, etc) and the community of Ploiești, evacuated to Brașov.
This folder contains a fragment (pages 3-4) of a document containing the names of the administrative staff and clergy of the Jewish communities in Hunedoara county. Hunedoara, Hațeg and Deva were presumably on the first two pages. The pages here are for the communities of Oraștie, Ilie, Brad, and Petroșani.
This folder contains budget reports and related correspondence from the Jewish communities throughout the county of Hunedoara, including Deva, Hațeg, Oraștie and Hunedoara. There may also be some papers or reports from smaller communities mixed in or attached to the larger communities.
This folder contains budget reports and related correspondence from various Jewish organizations (for orphans, the elderly, etc) in and around Arad as well as for smaller communities in the region or evacuated to Arad.
This folder contains the paperwork for numerous individuals from Alba Iulia applying for permission to exercise their respective profession and/or to be exempted from forced labor. The documents may include birth details, occupational details, various references and recommendations, and often a photo of the individual. There is also various paperwork in general regarding the position of the Jewish community of Alba Iulia and other supporting documents from companies who wished to retain their Jewish employees.
This entry is for multiple folders; each contains the paperwork for an individual or individuals from Hunedoara applying for permission to exercise their respective profession and/or to be exempted from forced labor. The documents may include birth details, occupational details, various references and recommendations, and often a photo of the individual. For the names of individuals applying, please see the National Archives online guide to this collection (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B54MeDlSJl3IMXVrTkFLMEhtVXM, only in Romanian) and consult the folder (dosar) number listed under the call number.
This folder contains lists created by the county office of Timiș-Torontal of Jewish men. The lists appear to be of men from whom papers of some sort have been taken away - perhaps papers authorizing them to work or run a business. They are ambiguously titled "lists of restituted files". Four lists are of owners, one of salaried employees and one of free professionals. The lists themselves contain only the file/folder number, name and address of the respective individual. All the men reside in Timișoara.
This folder contains various reports from communities and organizations around the country regarding their budgets in 1944. Included are several Transylvanian locations, including Timișoara, Lugoj, Alba Iulia, and others.
This folder contains correspondence, reports, and lists created by the Jewish communities of Hunedoara and Deva. The material deals with the evacuation of Jews from smaller towns in the county, staff of the communities, budgets, minutes of meetings, and so forth.
This folder contains an assortment of documents which apparently all have some relation to Alba Iulia, though the relation is not always clear. The documents are all of diverse nature: there is personal and administrative correspondence, Zionist material and reports, lists of staff in administrative positions (of the Jewish communities) in the county, memos to and from the central offices, a clipping of a photograph of Carol II, a few loose pages from a siddur, fragments from a German-language report on tobacco in Romania, and so forth. It is unclear how these papers came to be together in one folder.
This folder contains charts depicting the percentage of Romanian Jews with German, Czech or Slovak citizenship. The charts were created by the census department of the Jewish council and the data is broken down by county and city. Please also see folder 165 of this collection.
This folder contains detailed breakdowns of the Jewish population in Transylvania (including Crișana and the Banat) including by gender, age, mixed marriages, whether incarcerated, baptized, of foreign citizenship, and so forth. In general the population details of every city or even village are provided.
This entry is for multiple folders; each contains the paperwork for an individual or individuals from various towns in the county of Hunedoara (mostly Deva, Hunedoara, Hațeg) applying to be exempted from forced labor. The documents include birth information and, possibly, a photo of the individual. For the names of individuals applying, please see the National Archives online guide to this collection (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B54MeDlSJl3IMXVrTkFLMEhtVXM, only in Romanian) and consult the folder (dosar) number listed under the call number.
This folder contains correspondence between the central offices of the Jewish council and the Cernăuți offices. The correspondence and material primarily concerns the budget, though some other matters are also mentioned (requests for holiday materials,etc).
These two folders contain almost 400 "declarations" made by the heads of households in Cernăuți in 1942. The forms contain the names of the household members, including relation to the head of the household, age, occupation, and various permit or authoritization numbers. The address, date, signature are also included. Please note that while there are almost 400 such forms, many tens of thousands of Jews lived in Cernăuți throughout the war so these forms only contain the names of a fraction of the Jewish population. Many of the forms in folder 298 sustained water damage and are illegible. The forms were created by the county office of Czernowitz Jews (Oficiul Județean al Evreilor Cernăuți).
This folder contains a list of individuals appointed to administrative positions at the county office of Czernowitz Jews and other Jewish welfare and aid organizations in Czernowitz. The name, department, position, and age are included.
This folder contains charts of forced laborers who received winter clothing from the welfare office of the Jewish community of Bacău. The charts are organized by group, for example, a group doing work for the C.F.R. (Romanian railway) or in various sites in Transnistria. There is also a group in Mediaș, but the men in this group do not appear to be originally from Mediaș. This is the only group working in Transylvania, the rest are in Transnistria, Bessarabia, or Moldova.
This folder contains two permits for exemption from forced labor for the head rabbi of the Jewish community of Aiud, Abraham Schönfeld. There is also a photograph.
This folder contains two permits for exemption from forced labor for the president of the Jewish community of Ocna Mureș, Avram Leb. There is also a photograph.
This folder contains charts of all Jewish men between the ages of 14-17 and 51-69 in the county of Alba. The charts include the name, residence, address, place and date of birth, names of parents, level of education, and occupation. The individuals are generally are residents of Alba Iulia, Aiud, and Ocna Mureș.
This folder contains charts of all Jewish women between the ages of 14-17 and 41-69 in the county of Alba. The charts include the name, residence, address, place and date of birth, names of parents, level of education, and occupation. The individuals are generally are residents of Alba Iulia, Aiud, and Ocna Mureș.
This folder contains one sheet with some handwritten notes on the Jewish community of Teiuș, evacuated during World War II to Alba Iulia, as well as a chart outlining their budget.
This folder contains a report on the general situation of Jews in Hungary, but focuses primarily on the Jews of northern Transylvania. The report is not dated but appears to have been created in the spring of 1944, after the Jews of northern Transylvania were put into ghettos but prior to their mass deportation to Auschwitz. There is no indication as to the author of the report.
This folder contains a wide variety of paperwork dealing with welfare distributed by the Jewish Council. There are correspondence documents from all over the country, including some locations within Transnistria, as well as charts of recipients by occupation. There is no apparent organizational method to the folder except that everything seems to be from 1944.
This entry is for multiple folders; each contains the paperwork for an individual from Timișoara applying to be exempted from forced labor. The folders may include a variety of documents including birth data, educational and professional training information, photographs, various declarations, receipts of payment, and so forth. For the names of individuals applying, please see the National Archives online guide to this collection (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B54MeDlSJl3IMXVrTkFLMEhtVXM, only in Romanian) and consult the folder (dosar) number listed under the call number of this entry.
This entry is for multiple folders; each contains a declaration for an individual from Brașov applying to be exempted from forced labor. The document includes birth data, employment and educational informate. For the names of individuals applying, please see the National Archives online guide to this collection (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B54MeDlSJl3IMXVrTkFLMEhtVXM, only in Romanian) and consult the folder (dosar) number listed under the call number of this entry.
This entry is for multiple folders; each contains the paperwork for an individual from Arad applying to be exempted from forced labor. The documents include birth information and, possibly, a photo of the individual. For the names of individuals applying, please see the National Archives online guide to this collection (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B54MeDlSJl3IMXVrTkFLMEhtVXM, only in Romanian) and consult the folder (dosar) number listed under the call number.
This folder contains documents pertaining to money transferred to individuals deported to Transnistria. In general the names of the recipients and the senders are included.
This folder contains correspondence with the central branch and the community branch in Târnava-Mică regarding census information requested by the central branch pertaining to marriages and divorces.
This folder contains a document outlying the plans for the emigration (presumably to Palestine) of those deported to Transnistria. Included are the names of the men in charge of organizing the effort, the price per person and other directions. It was written by the Jewish Council and is addressed to the county office in Cernăuți. There is no date.
The folder contains various correspondence between the central office and local branches of communities in the counties of Târnava-Mica and -Mare regarding forced labor obligations. The towns of Mediaș, Sighișoara, Dumbrăveni, and Blaj are mentioned specifically.
The folder contains a memo from the welfare department to the community in Timișoara regarding assistence to be provided to Hungarian Jewish refugees arriving from the labor camp Bor.
This list contains the names of all staff members of the communities in Alba, as well as the names of the religious leaders. The number of community members is also noted. Towns are Alba Iulia, Ocna Mureșului, Teiuș, Sebeș, and Vințul de Jos.
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.
This file contains a census of Jewish males of Rădăuți who were born in 1926; the census was taken in regards to military service conscription. Each entry contains the person's name, date of birth, street address, and names of parents. In the column marked “comments” (observații) is entered information about the wartime deportation of the individual; everyone listed in this census was deported to Transnistria on November 1, 1943. Similarly, all entries are annotated that in 1944 the individual was “absent, excluded for being Jewish, placed into special regiment for Jews.” A final note column either lists an additional street address or offers the statement “is not at the locality.”