This folders contains hundreds of documents created by various border control and municipal authorities from towns near the Romanian-Soviet border (Bukovina). The documents all date from a few weeks, the end of March 1946 to mid April 1946. During this period (and before and after) thousands of repatriated Jews left northern Bukovina (U.S.S.R.) for southern Bukovina (Romania), often from there moving to other parts of the country. The documents include certificates of border crossing; petitions from families or acquaintances for individuals to live with them; paperwork for the transfer of individuals or groups of people from one part of the country to another. Most of the documents include vital facts about the respective individual including birth date and place and family members. Virtually all of them mention that the individual was in Transnistria or the U.S.S.R.. A very few contain photographs or other forms of identification (birth certificate copies or other identity cards) and there are several pieces of private familial correspondence mixed in with the official documents. Please note that there are several more folders containing similar documents, ie folder number 13/1946.
This folders contains hundreds of documents created by various border control and municipal authorities from towns near the Romanian-Soviet border (Bukovina). The documents all date from a few weeks, the end of March 1946 to mid April 1946. During this period (and before and after) thousands of repatriated Jews left northern Bukovina (U.S.S.R.) for southern Bukovina (Romania), often from there moving to other parts of the country. The documents include certificates of border crossing; petitions from families or acquaintances for individuals to live with them; paperwork for the transfer of individuals or groups of people from one part of the country to another. Of interest is, for example, the documents regarding a group of more than 100 Jews all originally from Noua Sulita, which petitioned to be moved together to a town near Arad, in western Romania. Most of the documents include vital facts about the respective individual including birth date and place and family members. Virtually all of them mention that the individual was in Transnistria or the U.S.S.R.. A very few contain photographs or other forms of identification (birth certificate copies or other identity cards) and there are also a small number of official reports or memos on the situation. Please note that there are several more folders containing similar documents, ie folder nr. 14/1946.
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: Jews - Fălticeni, Himor [sic?], Siret: informative reports, requests for verification in files, memos, personal identity documents, reports, informative memos, investigative reports.
The collection includes the paperwork and material collected by the Suceava 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 accesible 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 the United States, of tourists in the region or of Romanians with ties to foreigners. 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. Several of these contain material related to specific Jewish communities; others regard surveillance carried out in Jewish communities or on persons hoping to emigrate. For details on these folders and others with material clearly related to the Jewish population, please click on the link(s) below.
This collection consists of correspondence, documents, meeting minutes, and other papers from the Siret community dating from the end of the Second World War and the years thereafter. Much of these materials pertains to the reestablishment and rebuilding of community institutions, like schools and religious facilities. Owing to the prevailing conditions of this period, a substantial amount of the documents pertains to the administration and distribution of food, medical, and housing assistance for community members, many of whom were interned in camps or otherwise displaced during the war. A significant amount of correspondence concerning the restitution of property and other assets, both of the community and of its members, is also present, as well as requests to civil authorities for records and amendments to records. Several files also revolve around the day-to-day functioning of the community and its institutions, including a substantial amount of documents concerning the budget and contributions from community members. Some materials also concern memorial efforts, including the erection of a monument to the murdered Jews of Zaharești and the planting of trees. Please note that at the time of this survey (2013), the collection was closed for microfilming and thus this description is based on an inventory and not consultation of the original documents.
This collection contains administrative documents and correspondence regarding instruction in the schools, school assets, and staffing matters such as hiring, firing, compensation, and evaluation. There are some materials regarding the war mobilization and the evacuation of the school.
This file is of interest precisely because there is not one mention of a Jewish person. Prior to 1941 Jews comprised a large portion of the Siret population, in archival documents this is reflected particularly in the school attendence. This file contains meticulously drawn-up charts of the ethnic composition of students, municipal employees, and factory owners and workers. Almost all of the names are Romanian, there are a few Germans, Ukrainians, and Ruthenians. By this time the Jewish population had been deported to Transnistria by the Romanian government.
This register contains the names and sometimes birthdates of Siret residents who renounced their citizenship in 1941. Prior to this a law had been passed revoking Jews of Romanian citizenship, but perhaps it was not universally applied. The citizenship adopted in lieu of Romanian includes Austrian, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Argentinian, etc. There are also numerous non-Jewish individuals who renounced their citizenship, also for Austria or Poland, Germany (for the ethnic Germans), Czechoslovakia, and France. The bulk of individuals in this list however is Jews and the citizenship they adopted was Austrian.
This collection contains records created by the police department of Siret during the interwar period and World War II. Of interest to those researching regional Jewish history may be a folder recording those who renounced Romanian citizenship and adopted the citizenship of other countries (almost all Jews) and a folder with the ethnic breakdown of various demographic groups (students, factory owners, workers) in Siret - of interest due to the utter absence of the Jewish population as it was created following the deportations to Transnistria. For details on these items, please see below.
This file contains hundreds of petitions for various certificates relating to identity, nationality, literacy, occupation, or losses suffered during the war. Most of the petitions are from Jewish residents and many contain brief descriptions of persecutions in Transnistria (family members who died, etc).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Of interest in this file are lists of eligible voters in 1941. Some of the lists still include the Jewish residents and in addition to names, provide the birth date, profession, and address. There are also lists of youth born in various years. Here as well sometimes addresses of the individuals are provided.
This file contains various correspondence relating to the population of Siret immediately following World War II. The contents is quite mixed but can include petitions from Jewish and other residents for papers or other matters. At the end are charts of the population of Siret and surrounding villages according to ethnic group. The charts list the Jewish population at a little less than 850 in 1946 with the total population being just under 5,500. There is mention of Fany Goimann nee Katz, possibly the sister of the writer Leo Katz.
This register book contains the names of men who were members of the Siret municipality (this may refer to registered tax-payers). It also lists the names of their wives and children and the birth years of all individuals. No addresses or additional information is provided.
Most of the interwar years have files regarding requests to receive Romanian citizenship or nationality and permit applications to exercise various trades. In the late 1930s there are also files relating to the revoking of citizenship. These files contain a wide variety of documents and are all titled slightly differently. A select survey shows that many or even most of these applicants were Jewish residents. The documentation can be in German, Romanian, or both. Now and then birth certificates or other excerpts from civil records are included, sometimes there is just a one-page petition. In order to find out the exact call number, the inventory for the Siret Town Hall collection (Primăria orașului Siret) should be consulted, held at the Suceava national archives.
This collection contains documents maintained by the Siret town hall during the interwar period and up until 1950. The collection contains numerous folders from the 1940s related to the Jewish population including material on the revoking of Romanian citizenship, expropriation of property, deportation to Transnistria, requests for assistance by survivors of Transnistria, and so forth. For details on these items, please see the JBAT entry for this collection, subfield "contains" and click on any title (over 10 individual folder descriptions).
This school appears to have originally been the a boys elementary school in Cernăuți (Czernowitz, Chernivtsi) and at some point in time during or after World War II it was relocated to Siret. The collection primarily contains minutes of the staff meetings but it also has other registers and files regarding school finances, accounts, and class catalogs. The minutes of meetings (procese verbale) recorded during the war period are potentially of interest.
This collections spans 125 years and consists of many hundreds of register books or files. From 1826-1890 the collection is not complete (there are records for 1826; 1827; 1828; 1838; 1840; 1850; 1863; 1865; 1866; 1869; 1875; 1877; 1879; 1882; 1886. Beginning in 1890 there are generally class registry books for every year and every class. Whereas in 1826 the pupils did not include any Jewish families, by the 1880s they made up a considerable part of the student body alongside Germans, Poles, Romanians, and Ruthenians. In 1900 for example, one first grade class had 55 pupils of whom 24 were Jewish, 17 were Roman-Catholic, 10 were Greek-Orthodox, and 4 were Greek-Catholic (Eastern Catholic). Of these 32 claimed German as their mother-tongue, 16 Ruthenian (Ukrainian), 6 Polish, and 1 Romanian. In 1915, first grade class "A" had 78 pupils of whom 43 were Jewish, 20 were Roman-Catholic, 14 were Greek-Orthodox, and 1 was Protestant. Of these 64 claimed German as their mother-tongue and 13 Romanian. First grade class "B" had no Jewish students.
The school was attended by a diverse group of girls, included in the school-wide register book of 1925 are Germans, Jews, Poles, Romanians, and Ruthenians. The register records name, birth date and place, language, religion, class, grades, father's name, occupation, and residence. The records are fairly complete, with the exception of World War I years, each school year generally has every individual class record or a school-wide registry book (registru metricol). In 1915 first grade class "A" consisted of 61 girls of whom 35 were Jewish, 14 were Greek-Orthodox, and 12 were Roman-Catholic. Of these 47 spoke German as their mother-tongue and 14 Ruthenian (Ukrainian). First grade "B" had 64 pupils, of whom 28 were Greek-Orthodox, 25 were Roman-Catholic, 9 were Jewish, and 2 were Protestant. Of these 37 spoke Ruthenian as their mother-tongue, 19 German, 7, Polish, and 1 Bohemian (Czech).
As the main German school in Siret, this school had many Jewish students and teachers. Most of the items within this large collection are student registry books. The class register books contain the customary information for Habsburg schools: student name, birth date and palce, religion, mother tongue, father name, residence, and occupation, grades, and other comments. There are also registers containing exam information and registeries for staff. The staff registeries are replete with information including the teacher's name, birth date and place, religion (including whether secular or not), studies, languages, previous experience, and other comments.
Like most schools in the region this boys school in Siret was attended by pupils of all ethnic groups and religions. There were many Jewish pupils. Of particular interest are the matrikulation books from 1939 and onwards. Many of the pages with the information on Jewish students includes a photograph as well. The matrikulation page records the name of the student, birth date and place, nationality, religion, father's name, occupation, nationality and citizenship, mother's name, and parents' residence. Below these vital facts are the classes taken and grades received.
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).
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.
The photographs associated with manuscript numbers 45-48 include photographs from the 1980s of former students and staff of the Siret State Lyceum as well as photographs of students and staff from the 1920s-1930s.
This manuscript and the four related manuscripts (Numbers 45-49) deal with the history of the Siret State Lyceum. All contents come from former students. The Lyceum was primarily a Romanian school but some Jewish students also attended. In general the authors refer little or not at all to the Jewish students, but their names are included and some of them may be found in the photograph album (cataloged by the Suceava archives as manuscript Nr. 49). The recounting of the school history and the two volumes of memoirs are quite extensive, these items will be interesting for users who are confident that relatives or friends attended this school or who are interested in researching the cultural and educational program of interwar Romania as it related to nation building. The photographs may also be of some interest for those studying Jewish assimilation to Romanian culture rather than German within the Bukovina.
This manuscript and the four related manuscripts (Numbers 45-49) deal with the history of the Siret State Lyceum. All contents come from former students. The Lyceum was primarily a Romanian school but some Jewish students also attended. In general the authors refer little or not at all to the Jewish students, but their names are included and some of them may be found in the photograph album (cataloged by the Suceava archives as manuscript Nr. 49). The retelling of the history and the two volumes of memoirs are quite extensive, these items will be interesting for users who are confident that relatives or friends attended this school or who are interested in researching the cultural and educational program of interwar Romania as it related to nation building.
This manuscript and the four related manuscripts (Numbers 45-49) deal with the history of the Siret State Lyceum. All contents come from former students. The Lyceum was primarily a Romanian school but some Jewish students also attended. In general the authors refer little or not at all to the Jewish students, but their names are included and some of them may be found in the photograph album (cataloged by the Suceava archives as manuscript Nr. 49). The retelling of the history and the two volumes of memoirs are quite extensive, these items will be interesting for users who are confident that relatives or friends attended this school or who are interested in researching the cultural and educational program of interwar Romania as it related to nation building.
This manuscript and the four related manuscripts (Numbers 45-49) deal with the history of the Siret State Lyceum. All content comes from former students. The Lyceum was primarily a Romanian school but some Jewish students also attended. In general the authors refer little or not at all to the Jewish students, but their names are included and some of them may be found in the photograph album (cataloged by the Suceava archives as manuscript Nr. 49). The retelling of the history and the two volumes of memoirs are quite extensive; these items will be interesting for users who are confident that relatives or friends attended this school or who are interested in researching the cultural and educational program of interwar Romania as it related to nation building.