This folder contains a variety of paperwork created by or addressed to the Association for the Support of Jews from Southern Bukovina (Asociația pentru Sprijinirea Evreilor din Bukovina de Sud). The material includes correspondence with various Jewish organizations, Zionist and charitable, Romanian and international; private petitions for assistance; applications for job positions; minutes of board meetings; memos on various individual cases; paperwork regarding the transport of Transnistrian deportees back into Romania (from the part of the railroad company); paperwork regarding a home for the repatriated (homeless) Bukovina Jews in Bucharest; lists of individuals who received assistance; and other related documents.
This folder contains correspondence and newsletters to and from Zionist organizations from numerous towns throughout Transylvania. The material is exclusively in Hungarian.
This folder contains a variety of documents related to Zionist organizations in Transylvania. Some of the material is also related to missing persons, sought through the Zionist organizations.
This folder contains several hundred documents related to repatriated Jews from Bukovina and Transylvania. The material primarily deals with repatriated Jews residing in Mediaș, Timișoara, Buzău, and Bucharest. Most of the documents are charts and forms with names of those who received aid. The charts or forms generally include birth information, occupation, some deportation details, and assistance received.
This folder contains several hundred documents related to repatriated Jews from Bukovina and Transylvania. The material includes lists of supplies distributed to the needy, charts of names (generally with birth information, occupation, some deportation details), other registration forms, identity forms, some photographs of individuals, and excerpts from a Yiddish newspaper printed in South Africa.
This folder contains charts of the repatriated deportees (to Transnistria) who were living in a home in Bucharest (caminul repatriaților) in 1945. There are also handwritten charts listing the recipients of various aid from the Red Cross. These charts contain the name, former and present residence, in which ghetto the individual was interned, place from where they were deported, place and date of repatriation, the kind of assistance received (ie. rent, sewing machine, etc), and number of family members. There are also simpler charts recording the distribution of milk and soap.
This folder contains correspondence regarding missing persons sought after World War II. Most of the correspondence is from or to HIAS (Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society). A large number of the persons sought are from various towns in Bukovina, but there are also inquiries regarding individuals originally from Transylvania or elsewhere in Romania. In a few rare instances personal letters are included in the correspondence.
The Jewish Communities of Romania Collection (sometimes also described by the Romanian National Archives as the Documents Collection of the Jewish Communities of Romania) contains documents created and received by Jewish communities and organizations functioning in Romania from the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century.
The documents until World War II are composed of a variety of items reflecting community life, including statutes, correspondence, reports, and membership lists. Documents from the World War II period generally address the plight of Romanian Jews during this period. This material includes reports on persecutions and expropriations, correspondence and other documents related to deportees, and emigration paperwork. The post-World War II material generally deals with the repatriation of Jewish deportees to the Romanian-organized camps in Transnistria, the welfare of survivors, emigration, and the activities of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania and of the Jewish Democratic Committee (communist Jewish organization). For the complete inventory list of the collection, please see this link (in Romanian only).
JBAT archivists surveyed folders containing material related specifically to Bukovina and Transylvania. For details on the contents of these folders, please see the list below and click on any link.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Israeli espionage: declarations, records of interrogation of some Romanian citizens accused of passing diplomatic information to the Israeli legation team (Wriss [sic?] Ludovic Schlezinger, Haas Erich, Stein Israel, Kun Ștefan, etc).
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Jewish nationalist organizations: chart with Jew repatriated from northern Bukovina residing in Arad who have submitted requests to leave for Israel.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Jewish nationalist organizations: notifications, informative notes, intercepted correspondence, notes, requests for verification of files.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Jewish nationalist organizations: notifications, informative notes, requests for verification of files, lectures, personal identity documents, autobiographies, photographs.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Jewish nationalist organizations: summaries, informative notes, notifications, requests for verification of files, lectures, personal identity documents, declarations, plans for measures, charts of Zionists, records of interrogation, organizational layout of Zionist organizations.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Jewish nationalist organizations: file on Goldfischer Emanoil.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Jewish nationalist organizations: notifications, notes, informative notes, T.O. (?) materials, telegrams, records of tapping, lectures, requests for verification of files.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Jewish nationalist organizations: informative notes, T.O. (?) material, notifications, maps, photographs.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Jewish nationalist organizations: notifications, summaries (12 pages) on subversive activities initiated by Zionist elements against the RPR and other socialist countries, lectures, reports, informative notes, personal identity documents, autobiographies.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Jewish nationalist organizations: reports, requests for investigation, notifications of assignment, reports, informative notifications, documents recording exchanges, status updates, personal identity documents, notes of the activities of some Jewish minorities from the region of Timișoara.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Reports, informative memos, declarations, plans for searching for information, history of the Jewish problem, informative summaries on the activities of the Jewish minority from the regions of Arad and Timișoara and the attitude of the Romanian and German population towards the Jewish community; situation of informants operating in 1953 dealing the problem of enemies amongst the Jewish national minority from the city of Arad. Please note that this folder appears to be miscatalogued, when requested a folder with Hungarian nationalist content was delivered.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Jews - Fălticeni, Himor [sic?], Siret: informative reports, requests for verification in files, memos, personal identity documents, reports, informative memos, investigative reports.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Documents recording the submission and receipt of documents between the district secction M.A.I. Of Gura Humorului and the Suceava district office; papers describing the situation with "elements" from the community for whom various materials are retained; plans for recruiting agents; records from the district department of Gura Humorului concerning legionnaire and nationalist Jewish problems; initiation of informative operational work; meeting minutes; meetings analyzing the activities of the Gura Humorului district department.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: People from Fălticeni who requested to emigrate to Israel: informative memos, reports of investigations, personal documents, notes on relatives.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Personal documents of those who visited the Israeli Embassy in Bucharest: reports of investigations, informative memos, photographs, requests for document verification
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Informative memo regarding Israeli tourists and their relationships to various Romanian citizens.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Investigations, memos and informative reports, personal identity documents, notifications regarding the activities of Romanian citizens with ties to foreign countries or who want to emigrate from the country (especially to Israel); report with proposals of compromise and isolation of Abramovici Luhar from Câmpulung Moldovenesc.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Reports, memos, informative memos concerning the activities of Romanian citizens with ties to foreign countries (especially with Israel) and of some foreigners in Romania; reports on the usage of T.O. methods and reports on the contents of telephone conversations held by some persons.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Reports, memos, requests for investigation, charts, reports of investigation concerning Romanian citizens maintaining connections to foreigners or with embassies in Romania (especially with those of Israel and the G.D.R.).
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Informative memos, reports concerning persons from the county of Suceava with connections to foreign citizens or who want to emigrate (for the most part of German and Jewish ethnicity).
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Chart of persons pardoned and arrested in 1952 (former legionnaires, members of the L.A.N.C.), lectures, briefings on activities of some suspected and shadowed persons, charts of farmers condemned for agitation, former prisoners who developed a positive attitude after their release, former prisoners whose property was confiscated, agents recruited from the Jews, prisoners in detention from 1955-1960.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: P.C.R. briefings: informative bulletins, reports, memos submitted by the leadership of the P.M.R. (party of Romanian workers) regional committee of Suceava regarding the atmosphere among the population, the shadowing of certain people, interception of correspondence from the region and various economic infractions appearing in the region. The protest of Jews from the region.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: The Jewish problem. Statistics regarding the Jewish community of Fălticeni; personal identity documents; documents of organizations, associations, schools, synagogues belonging to the Jews of the town.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: The Jewish problem. Statistics regarding the Jewish community of Rădăuți; personal identity documents of some Jews and documents from some organizations visited by Jews of the town.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Records of meetings held for support and monitoring efforts undertaken in the district at different levels of work (Jewish nationalist, Hungarian, events, legionnaires, religious communities, sects, Bourgeois parties), on the manner in which activities of Service III (Serviciul III) were initiated and on the manner in which the tasks given by the ministry leadership were executed by the service.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: File on the problem of Israeli spionage in the district of Sighișoara. The history of the Jewish community, reports, the history of nationalist elements in the Jewish community, summary of the Zionist problem, the history of the Joint, chart of Jews from the district of Sighișoara, chart of citizens who received help from the Joint, records of the leaders of Zionist organizations, minutes or records of interrogations, plans of measures [to be taken], character descriptions of some informers, chart of informers (with code names), operational records, declarations, summaries regarding activities against socialist countries initiated by organizations and parties from Israel and the Jewish diaspora, decisions to close some files of informative espionage, plans of measures, reports on informative operational work.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: File on the problem of Israeli spionage in the district of Târnăveni. Decisions regarding the opening and closing [of the file?].
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: File on the problem of the Zionist movement in the Magyar Autonomous Region. Reports, personal identity documents, the history of international Zionism, the history of some local Zionist organizations, statutes of Zionist organizations in Transylvania, operational documents, records concerning Jews repatriated from the U.S.S.R. in the county of Mureș, informative summaries.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: File on problems regarding the Protestant (German Lutherans, Hungarian Lutherans, Reform, Unitarians) and Jewish religious communities. The history of the Jewish religious community and of the Jewish problems, of the Reform community in the district and in all of Transylvania. Personal identity documents, character descriptions, autobiographies. Documents on the parochial committees of the Reform community and of dissidents/trouble-makers within the German Lutherans.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Chart of those of Jewish ethnicity repatriated from Bessarabia and Bukovina (in the counties of Mureș and Cluj).
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. Please note that two folders are catalogued under this call number. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Informative material regarding the Jewish population (charts, addresses, ordinances, informative memos); text outlining the purported historical development of "Chauvinist nationalist elements in the Jewish population".
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. Please note that two folders are catalogued under this call number. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Jewish nationalist organizations (Zionists). Notifications, ordinances, documentation [on] "The Jewish Problem" (1949); the history of several Zionist organizations; atmosphere amongst the Jewish population and nationalistic events from ranks of the Jews in the Cluj region, notifications, informative summaries.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: The Jewish community folder. Historic summary, report on the Jewish community of Cluj, informative memo, plans on measures to take.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: The Jewish community folder. Historic summary, report on the Jewish community of Cluj, informative memo, plans on measures to take.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Repatriated people. Instructions for the census of foreigners in Romania. Charts containing refugees from Bessarabia and northern Bukovina residing in the region of Cluj, Romanian citizens who left the country and refuse to return, Romanian prisoners coming from the USSR after 1945 and Romanian citizens who have submitted paperwork to emigrate to Israel; reports on the activities of agents stationed within the Jews of the Someș county and region of Cluj.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Nationalist organizations. Reports, memos, ordinances, charts, summaries, documents on the atmosphere of the Jewish minority in the region of Cluj and activities of Zionist groups and their leaders in the region.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: Nationalist organizations. Reports, memos, ordinances, charts, summaries, documents on the atmosphere of the Jewish minority in the region of Cluj and activities of Zionist groups and their leaders in the region.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: General summary created by the regional inspectorate of the Cluj Siguranță (pre-communist secret police) regarding the atmosphere and political activities, personal records of the Democratic Jewish Youth Front (Frontul Tinerilor Evrei Democrați, F.D.T.E.).
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: German parties and organizations - German-Saxon ethnic group deported to the U.S.S.R. Chart with Jews who requested to emigrate to Israel. Informational reports and summaries.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: community statistics, reports from the Făgăraș office of the Jewish Council of Romania (Centrala Evreilor din România), charts of the Jewish community, Joint assistance, repatriates.
Please note JBAT archivists did not survey this material directly. The folder description provided by the CNSAS inventory reads: folder dealing with the issue: organizations and extremist-terrorist groups or dissidents of the same who envision actions upon the territory of Romania - report on the opening of the file, chart with terrorist organizations of the following: Palestinians, Armenians, Kuds, Ethopians, Somalians, Sudanese, Libians, Iranians, Libanese, Jews, Congolese, West-Germans, Italians, French, Balkans, Iberians, Nordic [peoples], Asians, South-Americans, religious extremists.
The collection includes the paperwork and material collected by the Timiș county Securitate (Romanian Communist Secret Police) offices under communism. The material includes select folders from the pre-communist period; these folders were presumably in the possession of the police and seized by the Securitate at some point in time. At the time of the JBAT survey (2015), the inventory for this collection was accessible only at the physical location of the CNSAS and only in digital form on the computers of the CNSAS reading room. The inventory provided no indication as to the linear extent of the collection and gave no additional details as to its history, content, or the number of pages in individual folders. The collection is large, over 1,000 files, and as such there are many hundreds of folders which are obliquely titled and may contain reference to Jewish residents, for example folders titled as dealing with religious issues or the nationality of residents or folders regarding the monitoring of individuals with relatives in foreign countries, of tourists in the region or of Romanians with ties to foreigners. Other folders contain information on former estate holders or industrialists It was beyond the scope of the present survey to inspect the contents of all such folders. There are, however, a number of folders with titles specifically referencing the Jewish content. Most of these contain material reporting on the activities of the Jewish community and individuals therein. For details on these folders and others with material clearly related to the Jewish population, please click on the link(s) below.