Reference Type: Book Section
Author: Gidó, Attila
Year: 2010
Title: Supravieţuitorii evrei din Cluj, Oradea şi Carei. Ancheta Congresului Mondial Evreiesc din 1946 privind efectele Holocaustului
Translated Title: [The Surviving Jewish Inhabitants of Cluj, Carei and Oradea. The Survey of the World Jewish Congress in 1946]
Editor: Ciobanu, Vasile - Radu, Sorin
Book Title: Partide politice şi minorităţi naţionale din România în secolul XX
City: Sibiu
Publisher: Editura Techno Media
Volume: 5
Pages: 277-290
Language: Romanian
Keywords: Jewish minority, history, post-second world war, holocaust, Transylvania, historical sources, health, economy, holocaust survivors, dwelling
Abstract: (En) The Romanian Section of the World Jewish Congress conducted a national survey among the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in 1946. Besides attempting to assess both the human and aterial losses and the grievances suffered by the surviving Jewish population, the survey's bjective was to make use of the statistical data thus obtained as a basis for both the egotiations at the Peace conference ending World War II and for negotiating compensations. he survey was carried out not only in territories belonging to Romania during the
Holocaust, but in Northern and Southern Transylvania as well. In accordance with the mother ongue, language competence and cultural background of the Jewry from Northern and
Southern Transylvania, bilingual questionnaires (in Hungarian and Romanian language) were rinted for the Jewish survivors from the territories which belonged to Hungary between 1940- 944,while monolingual questionnaires were used in other regions of Romania. nquiring about both survivors and victims, the 20 page-long questionnaires consisted of
10 questions and several subpoints. The respondents were required to provide personal data name, age, place of birth, residence, marital status, education and occupation), then information bout their citizenship, the anti-Semitic discrimination and grievances suffered during he deportations, their expropriated properties and material losses, and also information about heir life conditions and incomes before the deportations began. A separate set of questions eferred to the forced labor service, ghettoization and deportations. The respondents had to ive the names of not only their family members and acquaintances who died, but also those of heir surviving relatives. At the end of the questionnaires space was allowed for respondents anting to detail the horrors they experienced. e will analyze the survey and its results regarding three towns from Northern Transylvania Cluj-Napoca, Carei and Oradea) which belonged to Hungary during the Holocaust eriod.
URL: https://www.academia.edu/2583373/Supravietuitorii_evrei_din_Cluj_Oradea_si_Carei._Ancheta_Congresului_Mondial_Evreiesc_din_1946_privind_efectele_Holocaustului._._In_Ciobanu_Vasile-Radu_Sorin_szerk._Partide_politice_si_minoritati_nationale_din_Romania_in_secolul_XX._vol._5_Editura_Techno_Media_Sibiu_2010_277-290