Metadata: Assembly of the Municipality of Kikinda
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archives of Kikinda
- Holding institution (official language):
- Историјски архив Kикинда (Istorijski arhiv Kikinda)
- Postal address:
- Trg srpskih dobrovoljaca 21, 23300 Kikinda
- Phone number:
- (+381)230 422187
- Web address:
- http://arhivkikinda.org.rs/
- Email:
- arhivkikinda@gmail.com
- Reference number:
- F. 101
- Title:
- Assembly of the Municipality of Kikinda
- Title (official language):
- Скупштина општине Кикинда
- Creator/accumulator:
- Assembly of the Municipality of Kikinda
- Date(s):
- 1945/1997
- Language:
- Serbian
- Extent:
- 192.5 linear metres (256 administrative books; 900 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains various records relating to Jewish history; such as: list of Yugoslav citizens whose property was nationalised by the Hungarian authorities (these were Jews who fled to Bačka in 1941) - requests were submitted for subsequent entries and corrections in the register of births, marriages and deaths and the citizenship register; documents regarding the state appointment of the guardians over the property of absent persons; data on the property of persons who moved abroad and reports submitted by the appointed guardians; lawsuits for determining the death of missing persons.
The other category of data in this collection relates to confiscation of property, compensation claims and nationalisation. In addition, there were cases related to the sequestration of Jewish property, such as a list of Jewish houses that were not determined for confiscation, as well as a list of properties that were forcibly confiscated by the occupying authorities and records of the lawsuit of the General Commercial Bank from Subotica against the City People's Committee of Kikinda, regarding the property of former Jewish residents. Requests for restitution of the confiscated property were submitted by surviving relatives and eyewitnesses to the events during the war. Some data could be provided from the lists of purchased houses. Several records dealt with evaluation of the properties of the foreigners from Kikinda which were confiscated. The file on the sale of the synagogue of the Jewish Community in Kikinda and its later demolition was also preserved. There is also a series of certificates issued to the individuals who renounced their Yugoslav citizanship for the purpose of leaving to other countries, as well as lists and data on population by ethnicity, censuses of emigrants, religious communities and priests.
- Archival history:
- The documents were transferred to the Historical Archives of Kikinda in several batches. The first part was received in 1967 from the Assembly of the Municipality of Kikinda. In 1979 the Archives received 25 linear metres, covering the period 1966-1970. In 1984 some 250 linear metres of records were transferred to the Archives (some of them belonged to some other archival fonds), covering the period 1925-1979. In 2002 some 62 administrative books of minutes taken at the sessions of the Municipality and other committees between 1945 and 1982 were handed over to the Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first authority in Kikinda, the People's Liberation Committee, was founded immediately after the liberation on 6 October 1944, and consisted of commissions for trade and procurement, finance and agriculture, utilities affairs, economy and crafts. In 1947 it was renamed People's Committee of the City of Kikinda and in 1952 it was renamed People's Committee of the Municipality which lasted until 1962. In 1956, the National Liberation Committee of Kikinda comprised the Nakovo Local Office, in 1957 Iđoš and Sajan, and in 1960 Bašaid, Mokrin, Novi Kozarci, Banatska Topola, Banatsko Veliko Selo and Rusko Selo. In 1963, the People's Committee of the Municipality changed its name to the Assembly of the Municipality of Kikinda with the same territorial jurisdiction.
- Access points: locations:
- Kikinda
- System of arrangement:
- The documents were arranged respecting the original order of the creator.
- Finding aids:
- The following finding aids are available: summary catalogue; names and geographical registers of cases of nationalisation; Register of Archival Fonds of the Historical Archives of Kikinda; Guide to the Archival Fonds, The Historical Archives Kikinda, Volume 5, The Association of Archives of Vojvodina, Sremski Karlovci, 1974.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://arhivkikinda.org.rs/?page_id=270
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Vladimir Dudić; Historical Archives of Kikinda; 2020