These files contain letters stipulating permitted and not permitted publications. Many of the publications are Hungarian, but German and Yiddish publications are also included. The banned publications are generally of a communist character or "defame" the Romanian nation. The file from year 1930 also includes election posters for the town of Vatra Dornei; the posters are in German, Romanian, Yiddish, and for a wide variety of parties. The file from 1943 has more to do with confiscations of publications that are anti-state security. By this time the Jewish residents had been deported and few of the publications listed are Jewish or relate to Jews, though there are a few.
Sometimes reports on the activities of athletic clubs are found in the files regarding cultural activities. For 1930 and 1931 however they were filed separately. Similarly, not all the documents in these files pertain to athletic clubs. At least one from 1930 lists a number of non-athletic Jewish societies (Zionist, womens, etc).
Included in the general title of cultural activities or societies, are many Zionist and other Jewish organizations. These files hold numerous documents submitted by organizers requesting permission to hold lectures, dance classes, concerts, book discussions, elections, and other events.
There are police files for almost each year in which can be found documents pertaining to the monitoring of "foreigners." The contents of these files will vary from year to year but documents frequently refer to Jewish individuals, either because they did not assume Romanian citizenship (and thus are considered Austrian), they were visiting or they lost their Romanian citizenship.
The file contains correspondence and reports regarding police supervision and monitoring of Zionist clubs or other Jewish associations in Câmpulung Moldovenesc. Various requests for permission to hold meetings, conferences, and elections are included as well as detective reports by policemen who monitored such meetings. Specifically the organization ”Hehalutzilor” founded in Chisinau according to a police circular, is mentioned.
The files contains reports regarding demonstrations planned by the right-wing student movement, speeches made by leaders of the movement, anti-Semitic incidences, and other reports of similar nature.
In 1936 the police in Câmpulung created lists of all individuals who owned artisinal workshops, mills, shops, factories in the town. Due to the high percentage of Jewish residents in these occupations, there are many Jewish names on the lists, though the lists do not specifiy ethnicity.
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.