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Census chart of young Jewish men born in 1926, the class of 1948, in the city of Rădăuți

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.”

Tags: 1946-present, Anti-Semitism, Bukovina, Forced labor, Military, Municipal records, Persecutions and deportations, Rădăuți, Transnistria, World War II

Bulletins regarding the application of laws organizing nationalities and youth; the improvement of the demographic situation; hygienic-health actions for the populace.

This files includes various documents and correspondence regarding mobilization efforts; sheet 16 pertains to a work detail for the mobilization effort involving Jewish cadets.

Tags: 1919-1945, Bukovina, Military, Police records, Rădăuți, World War II

Recruitment register of young men in the graduating class of 1922

This item is a military recruitment register, organized in approximate alphabetical order, providing the following information for male residents of Rădăuți born in 1900: name, date and place of birth, some details on appearance, information on parents and in some cases on ethnicity, as well as the decision of the recruitment board.

Tags: 1919-1945, Bukovina, Interwar Romania, Military, Police records, Rădăuți, Statistical data

Recruitment register of young men for military service

This file is a military draft register with entries for all males in Fălticeni born in the year 1917, including several Jews. Names are listed in approximate alphabetical order. Name, nationality, religion, and profession are listed, along with information on physical features (color of hair and eyes, etc.) date and place of birth, address of residence, basic information on educational background, some information on the parents (age, address, occupation, names), reference to entries in civil records. The final columns list the date of the individual's military inspection and whether or not they were admitted into the military, as well as to what division they were assigned. Some accompanying minutes offer a summary of the procedure and overall statistics regarding how many youths were drafted, how many deemed unfit, and how many “left behind” for other types of military or civil service.

Tags: 1919-1945, Interwar Romania, Military, Occupations, Police records

Police of the Town of Rădăuți

This collection contains a variety of administrative documents and correspondence (budget, staffing, payroll), various documents created during day-to-day police operations, as well as an unusually high number of materials regarding the policing of borders, illegal aliens, and supervision of political groups, probably owing to the proximity of the territories occupied by Russia during the second World War. Of interest, too, is a military recruitment register, which provides a large amount of vital statistics information on military-age men in the region, including information about ethnicity and religion. For details on the items mentioned above, please click on any link below.

Tags: 1919-1945, 1946-present, Anti-Semitism, Bukovina, Citizenship, Commerce, Communism, Emigration and immigration, Interwar Romania, Military, Occupations, Persecutions and deportations, Police records, Political movements, Politics, Rădăuți, Statistical data, World War II

Police of the Town of Fălticeni

This collection contains a variety of administrative records and correspondence regarding staffing, budget, and other general business, as well as a number of materials regarding the policing of the community. The latter category includes a variety of registers of infractions and of individuals arrested or wanted for arrest, some of whom, owing to the substantial regional Jewish population, were Jewish. Elsewhere, there are various papers and correspondence regarding permits and licenses for various activities and events, especially for automobile permits and licenses. There are also some files on military conscripts and citizenship. For details on a select number of items individually surveyed within this collection, please click on any link below.

Tags: 1868-1918, 1919-1945, 1946-present, Citizenship, Interwar Romania, Kingdom of Romania, Military, Occupations, Police records, Property, Statistical data

Papers of the Pauca gendarme post

This is a small collection, mostly containing various orders, reports, and other business and administrative papers regarding the daily activities of the post. Several of the items specifically refer to measures regarding the Saxons living near the post, their involvement with German forces, and their deportation to work camps. A folder of correspondence (numar curent 1947-1) mentions Jews, but only to note that there appear to be no Jews in the area. The remaining documents in this folder consist of correspondence, primarily orders and circular bulletins sent to the Pauca gendarmerie post, concerning various tasks and activities to be undertaken. Often these have to do with agricultural matters, and there are also a number of notices about wanted individuals, escapees from detention, and measures regarding the ethnic German and Magyar populations. What is, however, of note is that much of this correspondence is written on recycled paper – for the most part, the versos of the orders are Hungarian-language documents dating to the late Austro-Hungarian monarchy, especially to the first World War.

Tags: 1868-1918, 1919-1945, 1946-present, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Military, Police records, Political movements, Sibiu, Transylvania, World War II

Confidential documents

This file titled confidential contains a variety of correspondence related to extremist movements and members of these movements of all kinds. Included are documents regarding Iron Guard members, Nazis, communists, or citizens of any country which was currently at war (France, England, Germany). Of special interest may be a list of communists in Cernăuți (apparently all Jews) including the address and profession of the individual and photographs of equipment used to sabatoge trains (homemade bombs, etc).

Tags: 1919-1945, Bukovina, Chernivtsi, Communism, Military, Political movements, Politics, Suceava

Documents regarding the local militia group

Of interest in this file is the original list of local militia members, which includes many Jewish names. At some point in time, alongside the Jewish names are written Romanian names instead, presumably the Jews were removed from the local militia and replaced with Romanians.

Tags: 1919-1945, Anti-Semitism, Bukovina, Interwar Romania, Military, Police records, Suceava

Census of youth from the class of 1928

These charts were possibly drawn up in order to determine whether individuals were suited for army recruitment. They appear to contain only males. Along with the name, the following information is (sometimes) provided: physical description, birth place and date, parents' names, height and waist measurements, occupation and that of his parents, educational background, whether or not the individual was drafted, other comments. Ethnicity or religion is not included on the chart but there are many Jewish names among those listed.

Tags: 1919-1945, Bukovina, Interwar Romania, Military, Suceava

Correspondence pertaining to the militia organization of Maier Kismann's logging factory

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.

Tags: 1919-1945, Anti-Semitism, Bukovina, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Interwar Romania, Military, Police records, World War II

Register with youth census data for 1922-1928

This book contains information for youths coming of age (for military purposes) in the 1920s. Information can include the youth's name, parents' names, physical appearance, place of birth, education, and other comments. There are various volumes for this youth census data up until 1944. For the exact call number for years later than 1928, please consult the inventory for ”Primăria comunei Vicovu de Sus” at the Suceava national archives branch.

Tags: 1919-1945, Birth records, Bukovina, Interwar Romania, Military, Municipal records, Statistical data

File with statistical data and census of youth

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.

Tags: 1919-1945, Birth records, Bukovina, Interwar Romania, Ițcani, Military, Statistical data, Suceava, World War II

Vicovu de Sus Town Hall Collection

This collection contains documents maintained by the Vicovu de Sus town hall during the interwar period and up until the 1950. Of interest to those researching regional Jewish history may be files with vital information on men of military age within the town. For details on this item, please see the JBAT entry for this collection, subfield "contains" and click on any title.

Tags: 1919-1945, 1946-present, Birth records, Bukovina, Interwar Romania, Military, Municipal records, Statistical data

Ițcani Town Hall Collection

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.

Tags: 1919-1945, 1946-present, Birth records, Bukovina, Interwar Romania, Ițcani, Military, Statistical data, Suceava, World War II

Files and forms of former Austro-Hungarian soldiers

The file contains a variety of forms regarding individuals who served in the Austro-Hungarian army. Some are in German and appear to be the original certificates of service dating from the late 19th century to World War I. Other are in Romanian and created in 1935. There are Jewish, Romanian, and German soldiers. Though this is catalogued in Câmpulung Moldovenesc, the files all appear to be from Gura Humorului.

Tags: 1919-1945, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bukovina, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Gura Humorului, Interwar Romania, Military, Occupations

Police of the City of Câmpulung Moldovenesc

This collection consists of files created or maintained by the police authorities in Câmpulung Moldovenesc from the 1920s to the 1940s. In light of the significant Jewish population of the town, many or even most files may contain papers related in some way to Jewish residents. There are, for example, charts of artisans and shop-keepers; requests from organizations (Jewish cultural, religious, political groups) for permission to organize cultural events from dances to meetings to elections and so forth; files on suspected persons (including war-time refugees); files dealing with the revoking of Romanian citizenship from Jews; files from the Austro-Hungarian period with military conscript information; files dealing with forced labor or deportation to Transnistria during World War II. For details on these items and others, please click on any link below.

Propaganda postcard showing fraternity of Romanian and Soviet army

Propaganda postcard depicting fraternity of Romanian and Soviet army.

Tags: 1946-present, Communism, Military, Photographs, Propaganda, Transylvania, World War II

Photograph Collection (Suceava)

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.

Tags: 1868-1918, 1919-1945, 1946-present, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bukovina, Communism, Interwar Romania, Mediaș, Military, Photographs, Propaganda, Transylvania, World War II

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