Metadata: Collection of nationality registers of Năsăud county
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Bistriţa-Năsăud County
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române, Direcţia judeţeană Bistriţa-Năsăud
- Postal address:
- Gării Str. 3-5, Bistriţa 420139, judeţul Bistriţa-Năsăud, Romania
- Phone number:
- 0040-263-203-249
- Reference number:
- Fond 44
- Title:
- Collection of nationality registers of Năsăud county
- Title (official language):
- Colecţia registrelor de naţionalitate ale judeţului Năsăud
- Creator/accumulator:
- Police and Court Năsăud
- Date(s):
- 1924/1945
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 2 linear metres; 130 volumes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes the nationality registers introduced in Romania by the so-called Mârzescu Law, which dealt with the revision of the nationality rights of the inhabitants of the provinces which became parts of the Romanian state after the First World War (Transylvania, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Quadrilater). The inhabitants had to prove in court that they had lived in these provinces before 1918. Those who had arrived later (mostly Jews from Ukraine and Russia who had taken refuge there) were denied nationality rights, which made them vulnerable to expulsion as well as the loss of job opportunities, social insurance and the right to a Romanian passport. The law was modified by the first openly antisemitic government of Goga-Cuza in 1938 which included a new revision of the nationality rights that meant that around 20,000 Jewish families from Transylvania lost their nationality rights. A final revision of the nationality registers in 1945 reflected the situation of the Jewish population after the Holocaust. This collection offers the possibility to reconstitute the situation of the Jewish families with nationality rights included in the nationality registers in Năsăud county in the period from 1924 to 1945, including information about the names, birthdates, birthplaces and residence of the family heads and family members. The registers from 1945 include survivors of the Holocaust.
- Archival history:
- The nationality registers were preserved by the police and, after the installation of the Communist regime, by the county inspectorates of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They were transferred to the county directorate of the Romanian National Archives in 1969.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The nationality registers were elaborated and preserved by the police after a court procedure of proving nationality rights.
- Access points: locations:
- Năsăud county
- Subject terms:
- Citizenship
- System of arrangement:
- Each volume is arranged in alphabetical order by surname.
- Access, restrictions:
- The registers became available for research in the last 2-3 years.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 40 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Bistriţa-Năsăud County (includes the registers from 1924, 1938 and 1945).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Levente Tóth (archivist, Protestant Theological Institute Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor Cluj-Napoca), 2017
