Metadata: Caraș Severin County Documents Fond (CNSAS)
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Council for the Study of the Archives of the Securitate
- Holding institution (official language):
- Consiliul Național pentru Studierea Arhivelor Securității
- Postal address:
- Strada Matei Basarab nr. 55-57, sector 3, 030671 Bucureşti
- Phone number:
- +40 (0) 374 189 161
- Web address:
- http://www.cnsas.ro/index.html
- Email:
- office@cnsas.ro
- Reference number:
- Fond Documentar Caraș Severin
- Title:
- Caraș Severin County Documents Fond (CNSAS)
- Title (official language):
- Fond Documentar Caraș Severin (CNSAS)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Caraș Severin Securitate
- Date(s):
- 1920/1992
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- German
- Extent:
- 1,124 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes the paperwork and material collected by the Caraș Severin county Securitate (Romanian Communist Secret Police) offices under communism. The material includes select folders from the pre-communist period; these folders were presumably in the possession of the police and seized by the Securitate at some point in time. The collection is large, over 1,000 files, and as such there are many hundreds of folders which are obliquely titled and may contain reference to Jewish residents, for example folders titled as dealing with religious issues or organisations. This collection has a number of folders from the 1920s and 1930s, collected from the Siguranța, the forerunner to the Securitate during the interwar period and/or collected from regional police offices. There are also numerous folders dealing with the "ethnic Germans" in the region and in German language. Many Jewish communities of this region were also German-speaking and it cannot be ruled out that some of these German-language folders include information relevant for those studying Jewish history (at least one folder specifically cites contents related to both the G.E.G. - Grupul Etnic German; German Ethnic Group - and a Jewish community, for more information see the Leo Baeck JBAT website). Finally, as in all the collections of the Securitate, there are numerous folders on legionnaire activity, both reports on events during and prior to World War II as well as reports on former legionnaire members and even their descendants. Some of these folders may also contain information on antisemitic outbreaks or incidents but are generally not described as containing such. It was beyond the scope of the present survey to inspect the contents of all such folders mentioned above which have the possibility of containing relevant or contingently relevant information. There are, however, a number of folders with titles specifically referencing Jewish content. For details on these folders, please click on the link to the Leo Baeck Institute's JBAT website and follow the links to individual folder descriptions.
- Archival history:
- The documents in this collection were collected by the Securitate of Caraș Severin county and centralised in Bucharest after 1989.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Securitate was the Romanian secret police agency under communism.
- Access points: locations:
- Caransebeş
- Caraș Severin
- Oraviţa
- Reşiţa
- Access, restrictions:
- At the time of the JBAT survey (2019), the inventory for this collection was accessible only at the physical location of the CNSAS and only in digital form on the computers of the CNSAS reading room. In order to research at the CNSAS, an individual must be "accredited". Accreditation is obtained by submitting a request describing the research topic. In addition to the folders listed in the JBAT catalogue, once one is accredited one can also search for folders under a specific name. For more information on the accreditation process, see here (in Romanian): http://www.cnsas.ro/cercetatori.html
- Finding aids:
- The complete finding aid is available on the project website of the Leo Baeck Institute.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://jbat.lbi.org/
- Yerusha Network member:
- Leo Baeck Institute