Metadata: District People's Committee Novi Kneževac
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. 119
- Title:
- District People's Committee Novi Kneževac
- Title (official language):
- Срески народни одбор Нови Кнежевац
- Creator/accumulator:
- District People's Committee Novi Kneževac
- Date(s):
- 1945/1955
- Language:
- Serbian
- Extent:
- 10 linear metres (43 administrative books; 50 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains various records relating to Jewish history; such as a census of the Jewish population since the beginning of the occupation, compiled by location which came under the competency of the District People's Committee and the census of those who never returned to their homes. The censuses include only figures, no names. The list of private buildings which changed ownership to state-owned includes Jewish owners, likewise the lists of expropriated properties, or those of purchased and sold buildings, or uninhabited building and those which were handed-over to the Fund of Public Property. In cases of nationalisation of property of Jews who left for Israel after the war some additional data may be included, such as lawsuits filed for establishing rights over such property. In the file related to the sequestration of property a few cases were preserved: “Centralna Štedionica“ in Novi Kneževac, previously owned by Jews who deported by the occupying forces; the property of the Jewish religious community of Novi Kneževac was also sequestrated, likewise in the village of Sanad.
In the files related to post-war colonisation, names of Jews were recorded whose property was distributed from the Fund of the Public Property. Thus, when a site was given for establishing a football field, it was noted that the previous owner was a Jew, as was the case with the building for housing a state authority and the construction of the Adventist Church.
Of the cases filed with the District Court in Kneževac, many were declarations of death for missing persons who never returned after the war, or to appoint guardians for their remaining property. Data on the Jewish residents were found in the lists of owners whose properties were confiscated, expropriated or nationalised, but never registered. A file of the expropriation of the property of the industrialist Artur Lederer from Čoka was also preserved. There is also a record regarding the collection of donations for the "Forest of the Martyrs" in Israel.
- Archival history:
- The documents were transferred to the Historical Archives Kikinda on 1 August 1967 (as recorded in the take-over minutes No. 04-2031) from the Assembly of the Municipality of Novi Kneževac.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The administrative body in Novi Kneževac was formed in 1945 as the District People's Liberation Committee. In the following year it changed its name to the District People's Committee. It administered 14 municipalities. It was organised in the following departments: Secretariat; Secretariat of Commerce and Utilities, Council for Education and Culture; Council for Public Health and Social Affairs, Council for Internal Affairs; Labour Office and Statistical Office. The District People's Committee Novi Kneževac ceased to exist on 31 December 1955. On 1 January 1956 it was annexed to the District of Kikinda.
- Access points: locations:
- Novi Kneževac
- Sanad
- Access points: persons/families:
- Lederer, Artur
- System of arrangement:
- The documents were arranged respecting the original order of the creator.
- Finding aids:
- The following finding aids are available: summary catalogue; 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
