Papers of the Saxon Society for the Care of Military Graves in Transylvania

Collection description

Holding institution (official language):: Arhivele Naționale ale României, Direcţia Judeţeană Sibiu

Postal address:: Arhivele Naționale ale României, Direcţia Judeţeană Sibiu, Strada Arhivelor nr. 3, cod 550164, jud. Sibiu, România

Title:: Papers of the Saxon Society for the Care of Military Graves in Transylvania

Title (official language):: Fond Societatea Săsească pentru Îngrijerea Mormintelor de Război din Transilvania

Creator/accumulator:: Saxon Society for the Care of Military Graves in Transylvania

Scope and content:: Although this organisation had a decidedly German nationalist bias and was affiliated with National Socialist movements, two items are of note for local Jewish history: a folder of materials on Jews in Germany (although not Romania) written from an antisemitic perspective and a list of grave sites of fallen World War I soldiers recording the number of graves per site, location and in many instances the ethnicity of the soldiers. Several Jews are among the soldiers, making the list a valuable resource for researchers interested in the history of Jewish participation in World War I. For details on these items, see the entry for this collection at http://jbat.lbi.org/, subfield ‘contains’, and click on any title.

Archival history:: No information is provided as to when these papers were acquired by the National Archives.