Metadata: Personal collection of Nandor Katz
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale. Direcţia judeţeană Maramureş
- Postal address:
- Bulevardul Bucureşti 26, Baia Mare 430052, judeţul Maramureş
- Phone number:
- 0262-437948
- Email:
- maramures.an@mai.gov.ro
- Reference number:
- Fond 782
- Title:
- Personal collection of Nandor Katz
- Title (official language):
- Fond personal Katz Nandor
- Creator/accumulator:
- Nandor Katz
- Date(s):
- 1911/1978
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 24 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds comprises the personal records of the lawyer and politician Nandor Katz from 1911 to 1978. It includes documents relating to his studies, army records, professional and political activities and is a significant testimony of the life and career of a Jewish Communist from Maramureş.
- Archival history:
- The collection was donated by the family to the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives, where it was inventoried and made accessible to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Nandor Katz was born on 2 August 1906 in Sighet into the family of Jewish lawyers. He attended the Jewish primary school in Sighet from 1916 to 1920 and later studied at the University of Cluj and the University of Czernovitz, obtaining a law diploma in 1935. In 1933-1934 he carried out his military service in Alba Iulia. He worked as a lawyer in his father’s firm as well as other law firms in Sighet.
His political activity began in 1929 when he became a member of the Social-Democrat Party of Maramureş before joining the illegal Communist Party, where he was involved in the so-called Red Support organisation and the union movement.
In 1941 he moved to Budapest where in November 1944 he was sentenced to serve in a forced labour detachment. In the same year, his father was deported to Auschwitz.
After the Second World War he returned to Sighet, where he held important positions in the Communist Part and became director of the Investment Bank and of the House of Savings.
He was interested in contemporary history and published an article about the relationship of the Communist leader Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu with the Maramureş area. His brother, Vasile Katz, became a professor at the Academy of Arts in Bucharest.
- Subject terms:
- Communism
- Jewish political activity
- Personal records
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is organised into files which are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 535, held by the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Anton Dörner (retired researcher), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor) 2017
