Metadata: Town Hall Jibou
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 53
- Title:
- Town Hall Jibou
- Title (official language):
- Primăria Jibou
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town Hall Jibou
- Date(s):
- 1896/1950
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 264 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the records of Jibou town hall from 1896–1950, including census records of the people and properties from 1946, draft census records from 1916–50 (files 15, 20, 68, 100) and 11 volumes of nationality registers from 1924 (files 30–39), which include every family in Jibou with the year and place of birth for each family member and the profession of the head of the household. There is also an alphabetical register of the beneficiaries of the agrarian reform of 1921 (file 59), lists of the merchants and craftsmen from 1923–44 and 1946 (files 26, 96, 169), authorisations to practise trade and crafts, a 1945 register of taxpayers, a list of people owing agricultural taxes and payrolls of town hall employees. Material of Jewish relevance includes a list of those deported to Auschwitz (files 153, 182), property records of the local Jewish community (file 91) and Jewish families, merchants, craftsmen and taxpayers included in the census records and nationality registers.
- Archival history:
- The inventoried fonds is preserved in the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The town of Jibou is mentioned for the first time in medieval documents from 1205. It became the residence of the noble Wessélenyi family, who built a castle at the end of the 18th century. The economic importance of the town increased a century later when railways came to the area, and a significant community of Jewish merchants and craftsmen developed. After the First World War, the town came under Romanian administration, interrupted from 1940–44 when northern Transylvania, including Jibou, again became part of Hungary. In May–June 1944, the entire Jewish population of the town was ghettoised in Dej and then deported to Auschwitz. In 1950 the town became the seat of the district of the same name in the communist regime’s administrative reforms.
- Access points: locations:
- Jibou
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged into thematic sections, within which the records are organised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 93 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County.
- 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), 2017
