Metadata: Maramureș 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 Maramureș
- Title:
- Maramureș County Documents Fond (CNSAS)
- Title (official language):
- Fond Documentar Maramureș (CNSAS)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Maramureș Securitate
- Date(s):
- 1934/1990
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 631 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes the paperwork and material collected by the Maramureș 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 600 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 or foreign citizens (depending on citizenship status prior to deportation, refugees from the war were sometimes considered foreigners). There are also folders on societies and associations, these may include Jewish cultural groups or Zionist groups. Additionally, as in all the collections of the Securitate, there are numerous folders on legionnaire activity and members, including photographs. Other legionnaire folders may 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 mentioned above which have the possibility of containing relevant or tangentially relevant information. For details on folders whose title deals explicitly with Jewish material, 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 Maramureș county and centralised in Bucharest after 1989.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Securitate was the Romanian secret police agency under communism.
- Access points: locations:
- Maramureş
- 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
