Metadata: Mayor’s office Bocşa Montană
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 224
- Title:
- Mayor’s office Bocşa Montană
- Title (official language):
- Primăria comunei Bocşa Montană
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mayor’s office Bocşa Montană
- Date(s):
- 1930/1975
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 332 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains financial documents, budget sheets, census records, information about agriculture and livestock, measures against epidemics, the administration of communal pastures, assistance to families of conscripts and war invalids, orphans and widows, the local school, communal council elections, the status of refugees from Bessarabia and damage caused by the transit of Soviet troops. Jewish records concern demographics and the expropriation in 1942 of Jewish houses and the synagogue and Jewish cemetery (File 3/1942).
- Archival history:
- The inventoried fonds is preserved by the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Bocşa Montană was founded in the 18th century by the Austrian authorities, who encouraged German workers to take up residence and produce wood and coal for the iron factories in neighbouring Reşiţa. The construction of the railways in 1871–73 contributed to the area’s economic development, and in 1931 Bocşa Montană was established as a spa town with considerable tourist potential. The Jewish population suffered frequent antisemitic attacks, including looting of Jewish shops in 1918. As in the rest of the country, the Jews were victims of the antisemitic measures of the state during the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Bocşa Montană
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Plunder
- Synagogues
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 275; 981 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