Overview
- Description
- Contains the personal papers of Dr. Wilhelm Filderman, a leader of the Romanian Jewish community who was active in the rescue of his country's Jews during the Holocaust. Includes Dr. Filderman’s memoirs and book, as well as articles, reports, appeals, newspaper clippings, and correspondence relating to the persecution of Jews during the fascist regime, prewar and postwar Jewish organizations in Romania, and the situation of Romanian Jewry after the war.
- Date
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inclusive:
1922-1951
- Collection Creator
- Wilhelm Filderman
- Biography
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Dr. Wilhelm Filderman was born in 1882 in Bucharest, Filderman studied law and served in the Romanian parliament. He also acted as chairman of most of the important Jewish organizations in Romania, such as the Federation of Jewish Communities, the Union of Jewish Communities in the Regat [pre-World War I Romania], the Union of Romanian Jews, the Joint Distribution Committee’s Romanian headquarters, and the Jewish Council.
Physical Details
- Extent
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219 digital files : PDF ; 19.9 GB.
5 DVD-ROMs ; 4 3/4 in..
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Requests for reproduction must be directed to the Yad Vashem. Researchers may not publish any records on Internet or any other publicly accessible on-line network without permission from Yad Vashem.
- Copyright Holder
- Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania. Jewish lawyers--Romania. Jews--Persecutions--Romania. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Romania--History. Jews--Romania--History. Antisemitism--Romania. Zionists--Romania. Political parties Zionists -- Associations, institutions, etc. Jewish committees (ushmm)
- Personal Name
- Filderman, W. (Wilhelm), 1882-1963.
- Corporate Name
- Comitetul Democratic Evreiesc
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Yad Vashem, Israel. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archives Project (IAP) transferred microfilms to the Museum Archives in Sep. 2010.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-24 15:06:33
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn41855
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