Metadata: House of Social Assurance Lugoj, Caransebeş office
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române, Direcţia judeţeană Caraş-Severin
- Postal address:
- Şesul Nou Str. No. 12, Caransebeş 325400, Caraş-Severin county, Romania
- Phone number:
- 0040-255-512981
- Reference number:
- Fond 27
- Title:
- House of Social Assurance Lugoj, Caransebeş office
- Title (official language):
- Casa Asigurărilor Sociale Lugoj, Oficiul Caransebeş
- Creator/accumulator:
- House of Social Assurance Lugoj, Caransebeş office
- Date(s):
- 1908/1949
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 435 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains registers of payments and receipt and issue of documents, members’ life and health insurance records and other insurance-related matters. Jewish-related material includes information on local Jewish firms, their owners and employees and their status during the Holocaust period (files 22/1940, 23/1942 and 24/1945) when the process of Romanianisation replaced Jewish owners, engineers and staff with Christians.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was transferred in 1951 to the Caransenbeş branch of the State Archives and then in 1968 by the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County, where it was inventoried.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Social assistance in Romania was regulated by the Ministry of Labour and Social Assistance, established in 1920. District offices were set up in 1924, and operations were unified and centralised in 1933. In 1948 the communist regime gave responsibility for health-related social assistance to the Ministry of Health, and for social assistance for employees and their families to the unions.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 527 and 1607 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin 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), 2016