Metadata: Special Siguranţă Service; Chetatia-Albe
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Odessa Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Одеської області; Государственный архив Одесской области
- Postal address:
- 18, Zhukovskogo str., Оdessa, 65026, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (48) 722-9365
- Web address:
- http://archive.odessa.gov.ua/en/
- Email:
- archive@odessa.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 892
- Title:
- Special Siguranţă Service; Chetatia-Albe
- Title (official language):
- Специальная служба сигуранцы, г. Четатя-Албэ; Спеціальна служба сигуранци, м. Четатя-Албе
- Creator/accumulator:
- Special Siguranţă Service; Cetatea Alba [Chetatia-Albe]
- Date(s):
- 1918/1930
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- (203 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- [Another portion of this fond is housed in the Izmail Archive (f. 309; 831 files for 1918-20).] Documents housed in the fond include reports by Siguranţă agents on activities of the Jewish community of the city of Chetatia-Albe (1918); correspondence on the Jewish youth movement Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa‘ir (1928); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Siguranţă [Romanian for “security”] was the secret political police of the Kingdom of Romania, charged mainly with suppressing oppositionist political parties and organisations. Siguranţă entities, in the form of special centres in cities and stations in nearby villages, were organised in Bessarabia in February 1918 upon this region’s annexation to Romania. In July 1918 they were reorganised as brigades, which in administrative terms were under the jurisdiction of prefects, and with regard to political investigations answered to the Kishinev Siguranţă Inspectorate. In a reform of Romania’s police system in July 1929, these entities were merged to form county police administrations and municipal police commissariats, which were in operation until June 1940, when they were dissolved in connection with the USSR’s annexation of Bessarabia.
- System of arrangement:
- Files in the inventories are systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary