Metadata: Chamber of Commerce and Industry Satu Mare
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Satu Mare County
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române, Direcţia judeţeană Satu Mare
- Postal address:
- Satu Mare, Str. 1 Decembrie 1918 no. 13, 44001, county Satu Mare, Romania
- Phone number:
- 0040-261-711102
- Reference number:
- Fond 1
- Title:
- Chamber of Commerce and Industry Satu Mare
- Title (official language):
- Camera de Comerţ şi Industrie Satu Mare
- Creator/accumulator:
- Chamber of Commerce and Industry Satu Mare
- Date(s):
- 1920/1950
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 5,638 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds includes registers of entrance and issue of documents, alphabetical indexes of their content, registers of records of meetings, analytical files of individual and social firms, electoral lists, correspondence with local institutions and with institutions from other regions of the country, records of the committee of direction, applications for registration of firms, dispositions and regulations of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, price lists of different merchandise. Material relating to the Jewish population includes files from the Inventory No. 174 - among the 89 individual files of pedlars there are 14 Jewish ones and among the 1840 files of merchants no fewer than 669 Jewish ones. Inventory No. 199 comprises 2821 files of firms of which approximately 50% have Jewish owners. File 2/1926 includes the electoral lists with many Jewish names. File 25/1947 includes many references to Jewish properties whose owners perished in the Holocaust.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was preserved by the Popular Council of the city of Satu Mare. It was transferred partly to the State Archives in Satu Mare in 1961 and partly in 1973 to the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Satu Mare County.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Chambers of Commerce and Industry were organised before the First World War according to Austro-Hungarian legislation and firms from Satu Mare county were subordinated to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Debreţin. After 1918, the Romanian administration put the firms from Satu Mare county under the authority of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Oradea which had two filial branches in Satu Mare and Sighetu Marmaţiei. In 1926 the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Satu Mare was established, which had under its jurisdiction the firms from the counties of Satu Mare and Maramureş. It ceased its activity during the Hungarian administration in the years 1940-1944 and was reestablished in October 1944 under the framework of the reinstalled Romanian regime. In 1949, the new Communist system replaced the Chamber of Commerce and Industry with newly organised Directions of Commerce.
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged into five thematic sections. Within them, the files are in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 7; 173; 174; 199; 200 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Satu Mare County.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Attila Gidó (Institutul pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităţilor Naţionale, Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor, Cluj-Napoca), 2017
