Metadata: Arad 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 Arad
- Title:
- Arad County Documents Fond (CNSAS)
- Title (official language):
- Fond Documentar Arad (CNSAS)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Arad Securitate
- Date(s):
- 1919/1989
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- German
- Extent:
- 433 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes the paperwork and material collected by the Arad 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 fairly large, over 400 files, and as such there are many folders which are obliquely titled and may contain reference to Jewish residents, for example folders containing information on "repatriates", a euphemism which often (though not always) referred to Jews who were deported to Transnistria. There are also several folders from the interwar period, one with information (addresses, lists of members, statutes, minutes) on various associations and societies; Jewish cultural or Zionist groups may well be included amongst those papers. Additionally, as in all the collections of the Securitate, there are numerous folders on legionnaire activity and members, including photos of legionnaire members. Other legionnaire folders contain reports on events during and prior to World War II as well as reports on 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. The only folders with titles specifically referencing Jewish content are listed in the Leo Baeck Institute's JBAT website entry, for more information, click on the link below.
- Archival history:
- The documents in this collection were collected by the Securitate of Arad county and centralised in Bucharest after 1989.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Securitate was the Romanian secret police agency under communism.
- Access points: locations:
- Arad
- 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
