Metadata: Prosecutor’s office of the court of Ciuc
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Harghita County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Serviciul Judetean Harghita al Arhivelor Nationale
- Postal address:
- Bulevardul Frăției 6, Miercurea Ciuc 530112, jud. Harghita
- Phone number:
- 0266-312598
- Reference number:
- 107
- Title:
- Prosecutor’s office of the court of Ciuc
- Title (official language):
- Parchetul Tribunalului Ciuc
- Creator/accumulator:
- Prosecutor’s office of the court of Ciuc
- Date(s):
- 1873/1952
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 12.35 linear metres (879 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds contains the records created by the Prosecutor’s Office of the court of Ciuc between 1873 and 1952, comprising correspondence (319 files) and trial files (560 files). For the period of 1919 to 1952 there exists an inventory with short descriptions of the cases, while for the files from between 1873 and 1910 only a list of cases is available. The fonds also includes registers of entrance and issue of records from 1873 onwards and alphabetical indices from 1876. The cases mostly refer to common crimes and misdemeanours, but also to political offences including antisemitic crimes.
Files of Jewish interest are as follows: no. 331 - fraud case of Salamon Kahan from Gheorgheni (1922); no. 426 - trial of Emanuel Hecht from Tulgheş for arson (1939); no. 461 - fraudulent exploitation of the woods of Tulgheş (1939); no. 516 - Adolf Hershkovitz from Ghimeş Făget accused of espionage for Romania (1941); no. 554 - Dezso Guttmann from Miercurea Ciuc accused of Communist propaganda (1941); no. 655 - Salamon Grunberg from Ditrău accused of a sexual relationship with a Hungarian women (1943); no. 791 - Barabas Bajko accused of antisemitic propaganda (1948).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was transferred to the Harghita County division of the Romanian National Archives in 1973, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The judicial organisation of Transylvania was established by the laws no. XXXI and XXXII of 1871 which established courts in each county, which later functioned according to the code of procedure introduced in 1880. The court of Ciuc county was established in Miercurea Ciuc and its building was inaugurated in 1904 after being built to plans by the architect Gyula Wagner. After the First World War, the legal system was reorganised by Romanian legislation, the main model being the law of 1924 concerning the organisation of the courts. Between 1940 and 1944 the Hungarian legal system was reintroduced, but in 1945 the Romanian system was reinstalled. After the Communist regime came to power in 1948 the legal system was reorganised following the Soviet model, with an increased role for the prosecutor’s office.
- Access points: locations:
- Ditrău
- Gheorgheni
- Ghimeş Făget
- Tulgheş
- Access points: persons/families:
- Grunberg, Salamon
- Guttmann, Dezso
- Hecht, Emanuel
- Hershkovitz, Adolf
- Kahan, Salamon
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Crime
- Legal matters
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised into thematic files and registers. The files are arranged in chronological order, while the registers are in either chronological or alphabetical order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 51, held by the Harghita County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Levente Tóth (archivist, Protestant Theological Institute Cluj), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor), 2018
