Metadata: Prosecutor’s office of the Court in Caraş
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 89
- Title:
- Prosecutor’s office of the Court in Caraş
- Title (official language):
- Parchetul Tribunalului Caraş
- Creator/accumulator:
- Prosecutor’s office of the Court in Caraş
- Date(s):
- 1926/1952
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 7,174 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains correspondence between the prosecutor’s office of the court at Caraş and the Ministry of Justice, General Prosecutor’s office, administrative and judicial institutions and local police and gendarmerie. Documents refer to political and electoral events, to workers’ movements, communist propaganda and actions, instigations to strikes and other protests, economic speculations and the sabotage during the Second World War. Post-1945 records include investigations into war criminals and Nazi collaborators and the disastrous economic situation of the time. Material of relevance to Jewish history is concerned especially with the revision of nationality rights of 1938 (Files 18/21/1938) and the implication of Jews in communist activities.
- Archival history:
- The fonds is preserved in the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The county court and attached prosecutor’s office were established in Caraş County in 1926 to investigate and try those responsible for threats against the stability, security and economic interests of the state, especially the illegal communist movement, industrial workers’ protests, economic crimes and sabotage of the war effort during the Second World War. After 1945, it investigated war criminals and those responsible for the economic situation of the country. The communist regime replaced it in 1952 with the district prosecutor’s offices.
- Subject terms:
- Citizenship
- Communism
- Legal matters
- War crimes
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 146 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
