This collection is relatively extensive for a Transylvanian community that fell under the Horthy regime during World War II. Like all community collections that have survived to the 21st century, we have no information as to how or why certain documents survived while others did not. The current community offices are on the premises of the former Status Quo community property, including the synagogue and connected buildings. However, there is a significant portion of material that originated with the former Orthodox community, so the material was transferred at some point in time in the post-war period to the Status Quo offices. The former Orthodox synagogue building still exists nearby but is now used as office space.
Series I contains numerous register books of member dues, through which details on the community make-up can be gleaned. Series II is of significant interest to researchers, containing the interwar- and war-time board meeting minutes from the Orthodox community, which appear to be complete from 1926-1948, presumably with a gap after deportations, and then of the Unified community from 1948-1962. Presumably, the minutes will reflect the changing fate of this important Transylvanian community, spanning as they do interwar Romanian rule, Horthy fascist rule, the deportation period, restablishment of the community by survivors, communist rule, and the waves of mass migration that began in the late 1940s.| Language: Hungarian; Yiddish |
| Extent: 13 registers |
| Scope and Content: This series contain registers recording individual members within the community and their dues or taxes. |
| Box | Folder | Title (English translation) | Language | Date |
| 1 | Membership dues register, Orthodox community | Hungarian | 1938-1944 | |
| 1 | Membership dues register, 1948 | Hungarian | 1948 | |
| 1 | Membership dues register, 1941-1944 | Hungarian | 1941-1944 | |
| 1 | Membership dues register, 1948-1950 | Hungarian | 1948-1950 | |
| 1 | Membership dues register, 1949-1954 | Hungarian | 1949-1954 | |
| 1 | Membership list | Hungarian | after 1950 | |
| 2 | Membership dues register, 1951-1952 (I) | Hungarian | 1951-1952 | |
| 2 | Membership dues register, 1951-1952 (II) | Hungarian | 1951-1952 | |
| 2 | Membership dues register, 1951-1952 (III) | Hungarian | 1951-1952 | |
| 2 | Membership dues register, 1952-1953 | Hungarian | 1952-1953 | |
| 2 | Membership dues register, 1953-1955 | Hungarian | 1953-1955 | |
| 2 | Membership dues register, 1954-1957 | Hungarian | 1954-1957 | |
| 5 | Register of members, Orthodox community | Yiddish | 1922-1941 |
| Language: Hungarian; Yiddish; Romanian |
| Extent: 7 registers |
| Scope and Content: This series contains the board meeting minutes for the Orthodox Jewish community. From December 1944 (after survivors returned from deportation), the book records the communities in the process of unifying. Prewar books have between 120-150 pages, while the postwar books have closer to 50 pages. The language is primarily Hungarian, with some Yiddish and, much later, Romanian. |
| Box | Folder | Title (English translation) | Language | Date |
| 3 | Board meeting minutes, Orthodox Jewish Community, 1926-1932 | Hungarian | 1926-1932 | |
| 3 | Board meeting minutes, Orthodox Jewish Community, 1932-1937 | Hungarian | 1932-1937 | |
| 3 | Board meeting minutes, Orthodox Jewish Community, 1937-1943 | Hungarian | 1937-1943 | |
| 3 | Board meeting minutes, Orthodox and Status Quo communities (during unification), 1944-1947 | Hungarian | 1944-1947 | |
| 4 | Board meeting minutes, Orthodox Jewish Community, 1946-1948 | Hungarian; Yiddish | 1946-1948 | |
| 4 | Board meeting minutes, Unified Jewish Community, 1948-1950 | Hungarian; Romanian | 1948-1950 | |
| 4 | Board meeting minutes, Unified Jewish Community, 1950-1962 | Hungarian | 1950-1962 |
| Language: Hungarian |
| Extent: 4 items |
| Scope and Content: The first item begins with addresses of members continues with only the member names. The register of those who returned from deportation or forced labor contains 2,207 entries which list the name, birth date, occupation, names of parents, where they returned from, where they have received assistance, and current address. |
| Box | Folder | Title (English translation) | Language | Date |
| 5 | List of addresses (of community members) | Hungarian | 1945 | |
| 5 | Goods donated for the former deportees | Hungarian | 1944-1945 | |
| 5 | Protocol forms for seized Jewish goods and property | Hungarian | 1945-1947 | |
| M3 | Register of those who returned from deportation and forced labor | Hungarian | 1944-1947 |
| Language: Hungarian |
| Extent: 4 items |
| Scope and Content: This series contains two versions of the Chevra Kadisha statues for the Orthodox community and two civil records books. It is not clear why these books remained with the community. For a list of all the civil records books held by the National Archives branch of Mureș please see this entry on the JBAT website. |
| Box | Folder | Title (English translation) | Language | Date |
| D1 | Statutes for Chevra Kadisha (Orthodox community) | Hungarian | 1924 | |
| D1 | Statutes for Chevra Kadisha (Orthodox community) | Hungarian | 1928 | |
| D1 | Register of births, 1933-1948 | Hungarian | 1933-1948 | |
| D1 | Register of marriages, 1892-1933 | Hungarian | 1892-1933 |
| Language: Hungarian |
| Extent: 5 items |
| Scope and Content: This series consists of registers recording correspondence received and sent from the interwar period into the post-war years. |
| Box | Folder | Title (English translation) | Language | Date |
| M3 | Register of correspondence received and sent, 1929-1960 | Hungarian | 1929-1960 | |
| M3 | Register of correspondence received and sent: Chevra Kadisha, 1923-1940 | Hungarian | 1923-1940 | |
| M3 | Register of correspondence received and sent, 1924-1927 | Hungarian | 1924-1927 | |
| D2 | Correspondence, 1944-1949 | Hungarian | 1944-1949 | |
| D2 | Register of correspondence received, 1944-1949 | Hungarian | 1944-1949 |
| Language: Hungarian |
| Extent: 6 items |
| Scope and Content: This series contains maps of the Jewish cemeteries in Târgu Mureș and Sighișoara as well as the associated registers of burials for the respective cemeteries. |
| Box | Folder | Title (English translation) | Language | Date |
| M1 | Register of the Sighișoara Jewish cemetery (orthodox community) | Hungarian; German; Romanian | ||
| M1 | Sighișoara Jewish cemetery map | 1923-1966 | ||
| M1 | Register of Târgu Mureș Status Quo cemetery | Hungarian | 1888-present | |
| M1 | Târgu Mureș Status Quo cemetery map | Hungarian | 1895-present | |
| M2 | Register of Târgu Mureș Jewish Orthodox cemetery | Hungarian; Yiddish | 1923-1966 | |
| M2 | Târgu Mureș Orthodox cemetery map | Hungarian; Yiddish | 1923-1966 |
| Language: Hungarian; Yidish |
| Extent: 3 items |
| Scope and Content: Please note that these items were recorded in an initial assessment in 2015, but could not be located in 2017. Their present locaton, condition, and further details could not be verified. Please contact jdawson@lbi.cjh.org if you have information on these documents. |
| Box | Folder | Title (English translation) | Language | Date |
| Register of Jews enlisted and who died in forced labor battalions from Mureș county (from outside of Tg.Mureș) (10 pages) | Hungarian | 1942-1944 | ||
| Table of those from Sighișoara deported and killed in Auschwitz | ||||
| Membership dues register, Status Quo Community (circa 300 pages) | Hungarian; Yiddish | 1900-1918 |