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This file contains petitions from Siret residents for the issuing of certificates of ethnicity and / or nationality. The individuals in this file are from a broad cross-section of the Siret population, including Romanians, Jews, Czechs, Germans, and others.

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This file contains petitions from Siret residents for the issuing of identity papers (nationality certificates). The vast majority of the individuals submitting petitions from these files are Jews returned from Transnistria. Some of their petitions list family members who died in Transnistria.

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This file contains various correspondence between municipal, federal, and army authorities in 1945. There are several sections regarding the local artisans (lists of name and occupations) and also random correspondence regarding Jews repatriated from Transnistria and being housed in public buildings of Siret.

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This file contains various documents relating to the municipal administration in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Of interest are the appointments in January 1945 of several Jewish residents to municipal posts. Also of interest are handwritten charts from the war years with the breakdown in population by ethnic group from year to year.

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This file contains almost exclusively documents relating to the Jewish residents of Siret who were deported to Transnistria. The documents are primarily composed of petitions to the mayor for confirmation of citizenship or profession and the responses from the mayor confirming the individual's identity or profession.

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This file contains various municipal correspondence, documents, and charts from 1944 related to the town and surrounding villages of Siret. There are several documents related to the ethnic breakdown of the population and also several dispatches related to the repatriated citizens (Jews) from Transnistria.

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This file contains various documents and correspondence pertaining to property belonging to Germany and Jewish residents of Siret which was seized by the state. Most documents appear to refer to former German property but there are also several pieces that outline the position of the town or state regarding all such expropriated property.

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This file contains correspondence and reports regarding preparations and organization of the local militia in Câmpulung Moldovenesc, whose headquarters was at the Maier Kismann factory. There are multiple bulletins regarding preparations to be made but also lists of personnel, including their ethnic breakdown. At the beginning Jews are represented equally or even over-represented in the make-up of the militia leadership; the documents at the end of the file contain only Romanian names.

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This file contains various witness statements and declarations from town halls or other civil register sources regarding individuals applying to receive Romanian citizenship. All of the individuals in the file are Jewish who lost their Romanian citizenship in the course of the anti-Semitic legislation of the late 1930s. In addition to witness statements and official confirmations of birth, etc, there are forms completed by the individuals applying which includes data regarding their birth, parents, and war-time location (Transnistria, work camps, etc). Names of applicants include Zoltan, Feuerwerger, Gluzer, Wieder.

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This file contains charts and correspondence regarding property stolen from Jews that were deported (the euphemism ”evacuated” is used in Romanian). This property technically became state property and the state then sold it through auctions. Auction results are recorded including bidders and prices. There are charts of original Jewish owners and of Romanians who had taken custody of the items. The property in this file deals exclusively with animals, mostly cows and horses.

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The file contains a variety of documents relating primarily to youth of military age in Ițcani. There are requests to the different religious authorities for information regarding youths born in the 1920s and the responses from the religious archival offices. In the case of the Jewish community, the responses come from the Suceava offices.

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This collection contains documents maintained by the Ițcani town hall during the late interwar period and up until the 1950s. Of interest to those researching regional Jewish history may be a file with documents related to men of military age born in Ițcani, with responses from the various religious offices. For details on this item, please see the JBAT entry for this collection, subfield "contains" and click on any title.

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This file contains correspondence and orders regarding the loss of citizenship applied to various residents of interwar Romania. Sometimes citizenship was revoked because the individual had adopted the citizenship of another country, sometimes citizenship was revoked on political grounds. For example, in 1941, Romanian citizenship was revoked from all peoples in northern Bukovina and Bessarabia except for those of ”Romanian blood.” Of particular interest is a chart of individuals who chose to return to northern Bukovina and Bessarabia after June 1940 (when the Soviets took power there). The chart contains almost 200 names, most of whom are Jewish, and lists their date of birth, ethnicity, place to which they intend to return, and identity card numbers. All of the individuals ere from Cernăuți (Czernowitz) or other towns and villages within northern Bukovina. Though most are Jewish, there are also substantial Ukrainians and some Poles, Russians, and Romanians.

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This file contains correspondence, orders, and other documentation regarding anti-Semitic measures taken towards the Jewish inhabitants of Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Gura Humorului, and Vatra Dornei. Included is correspondence regarding concentration camps within the towns, ”evacuation” of Jews (i.e. Deportation to Transnistria), orders regarding the possession of Jewish property, lists of Jewish residents who with permits to remain within the towns, orders regarding the wearing of the yellow star, and other similar dispatches.

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This file contains correspondence, orders, and other documentation regarding anti-Semitic measures taken towards the Jewish inhabitants of Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Gura Humorului, and Vatra Dornei. Included is correspondence regarding concentration camps within the towns, ”evacuation” of Jews (i.e. deportation to Transnistria), orders regarding the possession of Jewish property, lists of Jewish residents with permits to remain within the towns, orders regarding the wearing of the yellow star, and other similar dispatches.

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This files contains correspondence and other documents relating to the internment or concentration camps in Sadagora and Edineț, which were related or possibly the Sadagora camp moved to Edineț. Most of the documents refer to the Romanians interned (for communist affiliation, in general) but there are also numerous charts and lists of Jewish internees. Some of the charts list where the Jewish prisoners were originally from, some merely list their names.

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When the German army invaded Poland, people fled – Poles and Polish Jews. Some made their way south to Romania. These files contain documents regarding these refugees, including their names, possessions, and governmental orders regarding how they should be handled. At this stage, the Romanian government rarely distinguished between Polish refugees and Polish-Jewish refugees; later they would draw this distinguishment.

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The collection consists of one file only, which contains 10 receipts for diplomas received by students at the ”Petru Rareș” trade school of Cernăuți. Some of the students were Jewish. The receipts list the graduate's name, birth place and date, father's name, and grade average. Names include Casner, Wirth, Meier, Klein, Waldmann, Cușnir, Baumann, Rosenkranz, Iavorschi, Sandulovici.

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Propaganda postcard depicting fraternity of Romanian and Soviet army.

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The photograph collection consists of various photographs and postcards donated to the National Archives branch of Suceava. For information on individual items within this collection of potential interest to those researching regional Jewish history, please see the below.

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This item is a poster from the Jewish Community of Fălticeni asking anyone who finds pieces of the Torah scrolls that were destroyed or who knows where such pieces might be, to inform the secretary of the community.

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This item is a poster from the World Jewish Congress extending the deadline until September 18 for the completion of forms describing losses suffered by Jewish families.

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This item is a poster announcing the time for the burial of the remaining pieces of Thora scrolls destroyed during the war period ”when the synagogue was transformed into a camp and barracks.” It also orders the burial day to be a day of fasting for the entire Jewish population, male and female, above the age of 13.

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This item is a poster with instructions for submitting declarations regarding the improper behavior of (Jewish) community leaders during World War II.

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This item is a poster regulating the process for restitution of goods taken as a result of “recent racist laws”.

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This item is a poster from the World Jewish Congress extending the deadline for the completion of forms documenting the losses suffered by respective Jewish families in Fălticeni. The poster is undated, Suceava archives have it catalogued as 1944.

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This item is a poster announcing when the mikvah is open for men and women. This poster is catalogued by the Suceava archives with a 1944 date, but there is no indication of the date on the poster itself.

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This item is a propaganda poster distributed by the Allied Powers outlining why Germany's satellite states should change sides or surrender.

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This item is a poster from the Jewish Community of Suceava forbidding that items distributed for the use of the community be purchased or sold.

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This item is a poster outlining rules for transportation of goods expropriated from Jews, for example advising that permits are required from the office for the administration of goods expropriated from Jews (administrarea bunurilor expropriate dela evrei).

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This item is a poster with instructions for declaring possessions and goods left by Germans, Hungarians, and Jews with the proper office (Administrarea Bunurilor Statului Rădăuți) by 10 September 1941.

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This item is a poster publicizing 10 laws regarding contact with Jews and suspect individuals interned in camps. Amongst other rules, it is forbidden for them to have contact with the outer world in any form and they are forbidden to have any items except for what is strictly necessary which includes only food and clothing. Newspapers, books, and the like are forbidden and it is forbidden to offer aid in any form to those interned.

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This item is a poster publicizing an ordinance regarding Galician Jews who cross the border. The ordinance commands that such Jews be executed on the spot, that any persons who do not obey this ordinance shall also be executed, that any persons who allow or have knowledge of such border crossings shall also be executed, and that the police and soldiers are authorized to fulfill this ordinance.

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This item is a poster publicizing ordinance nr. 1 which contains 29 new laws regarding freedom of movement, times of store and office closings, rules affecting relations to the military and other war-related laws. Included in article 3 is a rule forbidding Jews from towns or villages to be outside from 18:00 – 7:00.

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This item is a poster publicizing ordinance nr. 14568 which prescribes proper procedure for declaring possession of goods, animals, houses, and land which used to belong to repatriated Germans and expropriated Jews.

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This item is an announcement regarding proper procedure for purchasing automobiles from Polish refugees.

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This item is a poster publicizing ordinance nr. 5 which forbids all public demonstrations in support of or critical of foreign states or their leaders.

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This item is an announcement from the chief of police ordering individuals originally from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to appear at the office of police in order to confirm their Romanian citizenship and loyalty to Romania. This item is catalogued by the Suceava Archives as 1920 but the contents make clear it is a war-time document.

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The documents collection consists of various documents on a wide variety of topics that were donated to or collected by the National Archives Branch of Suceava. For information on individual items within this collection of potential interest to those researching regional Jewish history, please see the below.

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