Metadata: Residential police Oraviţa
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 63
- Title:
- Residential police Oraviţa
- Title (official language):
- Poliţia de reşedinţă Oraviţa
- Creator/accumulator:
- Residential police Oraviţa
- Date(s):
- 1928/1949
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 271 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains correspondence with other authorities, document registers, orders, reports, notes, statistics, identity card registers, authorisations for social and cultural events (balls, concerts and dinners) and changes of residence, vehicle records, arrest warrants, records of foreign citizens, changes to civil records registers, certificates of morality, payrolls and requisitions. There is information about the public mood, strikes and other protests and national minorities. Records of Jewish relevance are concentrated especially on the Holocaust period, including expropriation of Jewish property, forced labour, confiscation of radio sets, obligation of Jewish families to leave their residences and arson of Jewish houses (Files 28/1941; 31/1941; 11/1944).
- Archival history:
- The inventoried fonds is preserved by the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- After the First World War, the Romanian state police was established in 1919 in the provinces which had recently come under Romanian jurisdiction. In 1925, it was decided that in rural areas the mayor would be responsible for the maintenance of public order and security. In 1929 a law concerning the organisation of the state police was issued, and thereby the residential police was installed in Oraviţa, reporting to the regional police inspectorate and county police station. It functioned until 1949 when the new communist regime replaced it with the Popular Militia.
- Access points: locations:
- Oraviţa
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 573 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
