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Memoirs of Melita Reis, born in Cernauti, Romania, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Bucharest, Istanbul, her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1943 and more

Memoirs of Melita Reis, born in Cernauti, Romania, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Bucharest, Istanbul, her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1943 and more Life in Cernauti during the Romanian occupation, 22 June 1941; murders and persecution of the Romanian Jews and their deportation to Transnistria; establishment of the Cernauti Ghetto; ghetto life; request made by Traian Popovici, the mayor, that Jewish professionally skilled workers remain in the city; removal of Popovici from office due to his attempts to help the Jews and the proliferation of deportation release permits he signed; termination of...

File Number : 8520

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yaacov Klein Katsir, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Yaacov Klein Katsir, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Bucharest Family background; Shabbatot and religious holidays; attends a Sephardic Jewish school; synagogues; youth movements and mutual help in the community; arrival of refugees in Bucharest. Anti-Jewish legislation during the Goga-Cuza government; terror on the part of the Iron Guard legionnaires; attempts by the Romanian Army to disperse the legionnaires; persecution of youth groups; deportations to Transnistria; forced labor; agricultural labor in a rural area; air-raids on factories by the US...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Study assessing the social and political composition of the Romanian emigration and exile, author unknown, 1949

Study assessing the social and political composition of the Romanian emigration and exile, author unknown, 1949 Topics included in the survey report: - Political opponents of the Romanian Communist regime, in exile; - Importance of the monarchy for the exiles, independent of their party affiliation; - General Radescu as the political mouthpiece of the former King Michael; - Political structure of the Romanian exile (parties, power, leading figures); - Role of the Iron Guard; - Ethnic Germans in the Romanian exile; - Influence of former Nazis and SS members among the right-wing...

File Number : 835

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Official documentation of the Centrala Evreilor din Romania (CE - Jewish Center in Romania), July-December 1942

Official documentation of the Centrala Evreilor din Romania (CE - Jewish Center in Romania), July-December 1942 - Protocol of a meeting between the Chief Rabbi of Romania, Rabbi Alexandru Safran, and the Commissioner of Religious Minorities in the Romanian Ministry of Education and Religion, 25 August 1942; - Letter from Nandor Ghingold, General Secretary of the CE Central Committee, to Radu Lecca, Commissioner for Jewish Problems, regarding payment of taxes, 01 September 1942; - Report issued by the CE regarding relief offered to Transnistria deportees, 18 February-01 September 1942; - Petition...

File Number : 155

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Romanian

Testimony of Ventura Barash, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Bucharest

Testimony

Testimony of Ventura Barash, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Bucharest Life before the war; her father owns a store; attends a Sephardi school; attends high school. Payment of forced contribution assigned to the Jews, 1940; hears stories about a meeting between the King of Romania and Ion Victor Antonescu, the ruler of Romania; request to pay with merchandise rather than money; murder of a Jew by a Romanian soldier; knowledge of impending arrests of Communist Jews; warning given to the Communist Jews about the arrests; hears stories of rescue of Jews; hears stories of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew