Metadata: National Bank of Romania, Zalău branch
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Româna, Direcţia judeţeană Sălaj
- Postal address:
- Tudor Vladimirescu Str. No. 26A, Zalău 450067, judeţul Sălaj, Romania
- Phone number:
- 0040-260-611016
- Email:
- salaj@arhivelenationale.ro
- Reference number:
- Fond 299
- Title:
- National Bank of Romania, Zalău branch
- Title (official language):
- Banca naţională a României, sucursala Zalău
- Creator/accumulator:
- National Bank of Romania, Zalău branch
- Date(s):
- 1937/1968
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 4 linear metres (157 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains files of the Zalău branch of the National Bank of Romania, which had sub-offices in Şimleul Silvaniei and Jibou. It includes records of the relationship between the branch and banks with Jewish connections, such as the Cluj Savings Bank (Casa de păstrare s.a. Cluj). Banking documents in the collection include balance sheets, registers of deposits, withdrawals and transfers, statistics, reports, personnel files and payrolls from the Zalău, Buciumi, Crasna and Surduc offices. Information pertaining to Jewish history comes especially from 1937–50 and includes personnel files of Jewish employees, records of Jewish clients and relationships with Jewish banks. After the the communist regime turned the National Bank into the State Bank, information of Jewish relevance is limited to persons with Jewish origins or names mentioned among the clerks.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the the administration of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County, in 1968.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The National Bank of Romania was descended from the institution of the same name founded in Bucharest in 1880, which obtained one-third of its capital from the Romanian state and the remainder from private citizens, especially those connected with the National Liberal Party. After the First World War, the bank extended its authority to the whole territory of Greater Romania including Transylvania, enabling monetary unification in 1920 and monetary stabilisation in 1929 and playing a significant role in the control of gold reserves, the trading of foreign currency, the regulation of rural debts and the supervision of the banking system, especially during the crisis of 1929–33. The communist regime nationalised the bank in 1946 and renamed it the State Bank of the Romanian Peoples Republic. In 1990 it reverted to the National Bank of Romania.
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Banks, banking, and bankers
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes files arranged in chronological and thematic order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 413 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County (lists files in chronological and thematic order).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Anton Dörner (retired researcher), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor, Cluj-Napoca), 2016
