Metadata: Sălaj 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 Sălaj
- Title:
- Sălaj County Documents Fond (CNSAS)
- Title (official language):
- Fond Documentar Sălaj (CNSAS)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sălaj Securitate
- Date(s):
- 1955/1991
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 484 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes the paperwork and material collected by the Sălaj 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. From the inventories surveyed by the JBAT archivist, this collection appears to have been the least processed of any from the Transylvania and Bukovina regions. No dates are provided for any folders and only a simple title is given, without any details as to contents. It is thus not possible to know whether folders such as "Dosar Problemă cetățeni români plecați în străinătate" (File on the problem of Romanian citizens abroad") or "Tabele cu persoane plecate definitiv din țară" (Chart of individuals who left the country permanently) or "Tabele cu persoana care au solicitat plecarea definitivă" (Chart of individuals who applied to leave permanently) or "Dosar problemă repatriați" (File on repatriates problem) may contain Jewish-related material - it is likely they do. Additionally, as in all the collections of the Securitate, there are numerous folders on legionnaire activity but these are similarly labelled "Dosar problemă legionară" (File on legionnaire problem) and no details as to contents are given. It was beyond the scope of the present survey to inspect the contents of all such folders mentioned above. Unlike most of the other county documents collections of the CNSAS, this collection contained no folders with titles specifying explicit Jewish content, though this may well be due to the fact that the entire collection appears to have been only superficially processed.
- Archival history:
- The documents in this collection were collected by the Securitate of Sălaj county and centralised in Bucharest after 1989.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Securitate was the Romanian secret police agency under communism.
- Access points: locations:
- Sălaj
- Subject terms:
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Police
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- 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