Metadata: Harghita 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 Harghita
- Title:
- Harghita County Documents Fond (CNSAS)
- Title (official language):
- Fond Documentar Harghita (CNSAS)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Harghita Securitate
- Date(s):
- 1933/1998
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 834 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes the paperwork and material collected by the Harghita 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 800 files, and as such there are many folders which are obliquely titled and may contain reference to Jewish residents, for example folders related to emigration. Additionally, as in all the collections of the Securitate, there are numerous folders on legionnaire activity and members, including photo albums of legionnaires who fled beyond the Romanian border. 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. Given the geographic location, much of the content of this collection addresses the tension with the Hungarian population including activities of Hungarians during World War II; many of these folders are in Hungarian. It was beyond the scope of the present survey to inspect the contents of all such folders mentioned above which had the possibility of containing relevant or tangentially relevant information. There are only two folders whose title deals explicitly with Jewish material, for details please click on the link to the Leo Baeck Institute's JBAT website.
- Archival history:
- The documents in this collection were collected by the Securitate of Harghita county and centralised in Bucharest after 1989.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Securitate was the Romanian secret police agency under communism.
- Access points: locations:
- Harghita
- 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
