1941 Romanian census

The 1941 Romanian census (Romanian: Recensământul General al României din 1941) was conducted on 6 April 1941 in all territories still remaining in the Kingdom of Romania, following the loss of land to Hungary (Northern Transylvania), Bulgaria (Southern Dobruja), and the Soviet Union (Bessarabia, Hertsa, and Northern Bukovina).

Later, Romania also annexed the Transnistria Governorate, finishing the census by conducting it there in December 1941.

[2][3][4] The census-taking process was overseen by Friedrich Burgdörfer [de], the chairman of the Bavarian Statistical Office of Nazi Germany.

After a six-day trip across multi-ethnic Romanian regions, he reported to Sabin Manuilă and Ion Antonescu (then the leader of Romania), praising the methods of the census and predicting that it would offer an accurate count.

[7] The census, on Manuilă's direction, also included a special section cataloguing all Jewish-owned property, a summary of which was sent to the German Main Security Office.