This collection contains minutes of meetings, reports, correspondence, speeches, members' biographies and other memos written by or about or sent to the Jewish Democratic Committee of Timișoara and/or Lugoj. There are also documents from Zionist organizations not necessarily related to the committee but related to Jewish life in general. The committee had a wide range of responsibilities, surpassing basic political tasks. There are a total of 26 folders each containing many hundreds of documents. The collection may be of interest to those studying Jewish life in the immediate post-war period and especially those looking at questions of identity.
This folder contains documents exclusively in Hungarian. They are not dated but are presumably from the early post-war period. The pages appear to be lists of questions and answers, of Zionist nature, perhaps used for those preparing to make Aliyah. There are also several ballot sheets with names of individuals running for various positions.
This folder contains documents related to various Zionist organizations within Transylvania, primarily in Timisoara and Cluj. Most of the material is in German and Hungarian. The contents include correspondence with central offices in Bucharest, newsletters, reports, minutes of meetings, speeches, and so forth.
This folder contains a wide variety of documents, primarily related to Zionist organizations within Romania. Many but not all papers appear to be from or to Transylvanian Zionist organizations but there are also many documents from international branches. There are also several private pieces of correspondence. The material is primarily in Hungarian and German, with some Yiddish, Hebrew, English, French, and Romanian material as well. There are several reports on activities and events in Israel, these are mostly in German, some in English.
This folder contains a variety of documents mostly related to Zionist organizations within Transylvania but also to other Jewish organizations within Romania. The material consists of reports, newsletters, and some correspondence.
This folder contains a variety of documents created by various Zionist organizations, apparently all based in Transylvania. There are newsletters and correspondence between offices. Most of the material is in Hungarian and Yiddish.
This folder contains a report from the Jewish Democratic Committee representatives in Satu-Mare to the headquarters in Bucharest. It deals mainly with staff, activities and youth work.
This folder contains reports from several different towns on the activities of the Jewish Democratic Committee of the respective town. Sighisoara is one of the towns included in the reports.
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 three documents regarding members of Zionist Youth organizations who were evacuated in Bukovina and required assistance. Individuals were from Vatra Dornei, Siret, Mihaileni and Campulung.
This folder contains a copy of the minutes of a meeting held in Vatra Dornei in 1937 by the leaders of various student Zionist organizations in Romania. It appears that these leaders had already formed a Federation of Zionist associations and that the topics discussed were in reference to changes made to the statutes of this Federation as well as other matters. Though there is little context to the document, nevertheless various insights come through such as tension between the Transylvanian representatives and the Bucharest representatives and relative success or popularity of various Zionist organizations in different regions of Romania. The names of the regional leaders are also provided.
This folder contains several pieces of miscellaneous correspondence related to several Makkabi (also spelled Macabi, today Maccabi) sports club branches in Romania. It is not clear what the connection is between the letters or how they ended up together and in this archival collection. In addition to reports from Romanian-based branches, there is a list of donations/dues (unclear) from Czech-based branches. On the verso is a fragment of a letter in German regarding Romanian-based Zionist work; the letter appears to refer to Zionist activities and not Makkabi events. Other letters include one from the Tel-Aviv Makkabi branch to Bucharest representatives (Dr. Weinberg). There is also a report, in German, addressed to the leadership of the Makkabi World Union (Weltverband) at the congress in Prague (1933) regarding activities in Romania; the report was written in Iași. There are several memos from and to the Chișinau branch (in Romanian and Hebrew) as well as to branches in Galați and Cernăuți (Chernivtsi/Czernowitz). These are written in Romania and are all from the same man, Hazack Weematz (also spelled Hazac Veemaț), apparently president of the Romanian Makkabi executive board.
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: 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: 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: 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. 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: 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: 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.
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.
The collection includes the paperwork and material collected by the Mureș 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. 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 from World War II and others contain histories of the local Jewish communities. For details on folders mentioned above and others with material clearly related to the Jewish population, please click on the link(s) below.
The collection includes the paperwork and material collected by the Cluj 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. There are many folders which are obliquely titled or which may contain material related to Jewish individuals, for example, folders on emigrants, but the titles do not specify this. It was beyond the scope of the present survey to inspect the contents of all such folders. 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. For details on folders titled as specifically containing material related to the Jewish population, please click on the link(s) below.
This folder contains an assortment of documents which apparently all have some relation to Alba Iulia, though the relation is not always clear. The documents are all of diverse nature: there is personal and administrative correspondence, Zionist material and reports, lists of staff in administrative positions (of the Jewish communities) in the county, memos to and from the central offices, a clipping of a photograph of Carol II, a few loose pages from a siddur, fragments from a German-language report on tobacco in Romania, and so forth. It is unclear how these papers came to be together in one folder.
This folder contains a document outlying the plans for the emigration (presumably to Palestine) of those deported to Transnistria. Included are the names of the men in charge of organizing the effort, the price per person and other directions. It was written by the Jewish Council and is addressed to the county office in Cernăuți. There is no date.
This folder contains forms about the new street names in Reghin. The charts are of interest as they contain many Jewish landmarks in the town, such as the Jewish sanatorium, the 2 Jewish "churches" (or second Jewish church, difficult to know what was intended), the Jewish quarter (called Plangerilor, or quarter of tears/wailing) and the newly named Street of Jewish Martyrs (which was quickly changed to something else). There are also lists of inhabitants who emigrated illegally in 1947, the majority going to Hungary or Palestine. Included on the lists are the names, occupation, date of departure, and destination.
The folder contains requests and petitions from various organizations and individuals in Reghin to the Town Hall. There are notes from or to Zionist organizations and the Jewish community.
Please note that this collection comprises three inventories: "Primaria Orasului Reghin" (1829-1950) with 704 items; Sfatul Popular al Orasului Reghin (1951-1955) with 111 items; and Consiliul Popular al Orasului Reghin (1950-1968) with 634 items. These titles reflect the changes of governmental organisation within the country. The present survey focused primarily on the contents of the first inventory. The material within the second two inventories deals largely with the restructuring under communism and rarely do the contents move beyond bureaucratic and administrative announcements and records. The first inventory however contains numerous files with information relevant to Jewish history. The collection contains material customary for a municipal authority including administrative and financial files, documents regarding permits and professions, and regulating schools, religious institutes, and so forth. Specific to the Jewish population, there are files with material on synagogues, Jewish organizations, Jewish professionals and apprentices, and numerous files regarding Jewish citizenship or property of Jews who were deported or emigrated. For details on these files and others with material related specifically to the Jewish population of Reghin, please see below and click on any title.
This files includes various orders, correspondence, and reports on surveillance of radical groups, both left and right wing. For example, item 72 regards the activities of some Zionists and communists. Elsewhere, some materials pertain to reports on the activities of right wing groups like the Iron Guard and on anti-Semitic publications.
This collection contains papers and correspondence relating to the administration of the police (staffing, payroll, budget), as well as a number of materials regarding community events and surveillance of citizens. Of particular interest are lists of tradesmen present in the municipality, many of whom were Jewish, and requests by individuals and organizations for permits for social and cultural events, including many events hosted by Jewish cultural organizations. There is also a substantial amount of material regarding press censorship and surveillance of political groups, including Zionist groups. For details on the items mentioned above, please click on any link below.
This collection contains papers created by the Jewish Democratic Committee for the county of Mureș and town of Târgu Mureș and for the local branch of Reghin. The folders contain meeting minutes, reports, surveys, and other written material. It is not clear how the county of Mureș differed from the region of Mureș (there is also a collection for the Regional Jewish Democratic Committee for Mureș). The committee had a wide range of responsibilities, surpassing basic political tasks. The reports and meetings record decisions about secular and religious holidays, the Jewish school, teachers, emigration matters, unresolved events (missing persons) from World War II, religious staff (butcher, teachers), cultural events, and general happenings in community life. There are surveys on the community, including data on community numbers, language, occupations, and so forth. There are reports on the receptiveness to communist ideology versus Zionism and specific numbers are given for those who have requested to emigrate. There may also be speeches made by the leadership on holidays or for other gatherings. The collection may be of interest to those studying Jewish life in the immediate post-war period and especially those looking at questions of identity, Zionism, and Jewish roles in early communist Romania.
Please note that the inventory for this collection was missing in 2015, so the precise contents are not known. Two folders were requested, one dealt with the regional committee, as per the title of the collection; the other folder was from the Sighișoara committee. The folders contain meeting minutes, reports, surveys, and other written material created by the Jewish Democratic Committee for the region of Mureș (or Sighișoara). It is not clear how the region of Mureș differed from the county of Mureș (there is also a collection for the Jewish Democratic Committee for Mureș County). The committee had a wide range of responsibilities, surpassing basic political tasks. The reports and meetings record decisions about secular and religious holidays, the Jewish school, teachers, emigration matters, unresolved events (missing persons) from World War II, religious staff (butcher, teachers), cultural events, and general happenings in community life. There are surveys on the community, including data on community numbers, language, occupations, and so forth. There are reports on the surrounding towns and the respective population's receptiveness to communist ideology versus Zionism. There may also be speeches made by the leadership on holidays or for other gatherings. The collection may be of interest to those studying Jewish life in the immediate post-war period and especially those looking at questions of identity, Zionism, and Jewish roles in early communist Romania.
This collection contains minutes of meetings, reports, correspondence, speeches, and other memos written by or about the Jewish Democratic Committee of Târnăveni. The committee had a wide range of responsibilities, surpassing basic political tasks. The reports and meetings record decisions about secular and religious holidays, the Jewish school, teachers, emigration matters, unresolved events (missing persons) from World War II, religious staff (butcher, teachers), cultural events, and general happenings in community life. There are surveys on the community, including data on community numbers, language, occupations, and so forth. The collection may be of interest to those studying Jewish life in the immediate post-war period and especially those looking at questions of identity.
This collection consists of general correspondence and paperwork regarding daily business, payroll, and staffing matters, as well a number of reports and statistics on crimes in the jurisdiction. Since the collection covers the period from the early 1930s through the late 1940s, a number of materials pertain to matters such as surveillance of radical political groups, both on the left and right (including some Zionist groups), illegal border crossings, espionage, instructions for applying the terms of the armistice, purging of the staff after the war, and problems arising from repatriated and displaced groups during and after the war.
This files contains hundreds of petitions and related correspondence from a variety of cultural organizations in Câmpulung requesting authorization to host cultural events and gatherings. The events range from performances by guest opera singers, masked balls, all-night dances, hora parties, picnics, readings, and other gatherings. Numerous Jewish organizations are represented as well as organizations which had large numbers of Jewish members, such as the social democrat political party. Of particular interest are several documents related to the Yiddish and Zionist-oriented organization Ber Borochov Jewish Cultural League (Liga culturala evrească).
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.
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.
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.
This poster calls all Jews in Suceava to attend a grand assembly meeting organized by the Suceava cell of the Zionist organization Keren Kayemeth Leisrael on 4 July 1948 during which delegates Dr. Th. Löwenstein and Av. S. Mintz from the central Zionist organization will speak about the current problems in the State of Israel.
This item is a flyer from the Federation of Jewish Communities of the R.P.R. (Republica Populară România, People's Republic of Romania) supporting peace. Undated, but must be post-1947.
This item is a small poster or flyer addressed to young Jews encouraging them to engage in Zionist activities. Printed by Hanoar Haționi. Undated, catalogued by Suceava Archives as 1945.