Metadata: Administration of Şomcuta Mare district
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 77
- Title:
- Administration of Şomcuta Mare district
- Title (official language):
- Pretura plăşii Şomcuta Mare
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Şomcuta Mare district
- Date(s):
- 1940/1950
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 2 linear metres (174 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the records of the administration of Şomcuta Mare district from 1940 to 1950, including the period of the Hungarian administration (1940-1944), the reinstallation of the Romanian administration (1945-1948) and the beginning of the Communist regime (1948-1950). The material relates to the administrative, economic, social and political problems caused by these changes, difficulties in supplying the population with food, reconstruction after the war and the adaptation of the district’s population to the political changes.
The following files contain specific Jewish references: no. 43 - registers of nationality (1945); no. 48 - statistical tables about the population of the district (1945); no. 52 - expropriation of estates by the agrarian reform from 1945; no. 41 - the elimination of antisemitic publications from public libraries (1945); no. 127 - list of intellectuals (teachers, priests, rabbis) in the district (1948); no. 138 - list of nationalised enterprises in the district (1949); no. 173 - list of employees of firms in the district (1950).
- Archival history:
- This fonds was destined to be destroyed in 1954 by the Communist authorities but was eventually transferred to the State Archives of Baia Mare, albeit in a very poor state of preservation. It was inventoried and stabilised and is now available for consultation at the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The district of Şomcuta Mare was established in Maramureş county in accordance with the Romanian law of administration of 1925, with the administrative task of transmitting the dispositions of the central and county authorities to the villages and towns included in the district and to supervise the activities of the local administration. In 1940 the Hungarian administration was reinstalled in northern Transylvania and the language of all official activities and records changed to Hungarian. The district administration was involved in the implementation of antisemitic legislation and the deportation of the local Jewish population in 1944. In 1945 the Romanian administration was reinstalled and it functioned in accordance with the legislation of the interwar period until 1948, when the Communist regime was introduced and the administrative system was changed. The place of the former counties and districts was taken by the so-called regions and rayons adapted following the Soviet model of local administration.
- Access points: locations:
- Şomcuta Mare
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Census
- Citizenship
- Plunder
- Rabbis
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged in chronological order.
- Access, restrictions:
- The files relating to expropriations in the district of Şomcuta Mare during the agrarian reform of 1945 (file no. 52) are not available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 61, 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
