Metadata: Jewish Democratic Committee of Satu Mare county
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române. Direcţia Judeţeană Satu Mare
- Postal address:
- Satu Mare, Str. 1 Decembrie 1918, 13, Satu Mare, 440010, jud. Satu Mare
- Phone number:
- 0261-711102
- Reference number:
- Fond 177
- Title:
- Jewish Democratic Committee of Satu Mare county
- Title (official language):
- Comitetul Democratic Evreiesc, Satu Mare
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Democratic Committee of Satu Mare county
- Date(s):
- 1944/1953
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 46 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds comprises includes the correspondence of the Jewish Democratic Committee Satu Mare county with the Regional Committee of the JDC in Cluj and the central institutions of the organisation in Bucharest, instructions and regulations, circular letters, monthly reports of activity, information bulletins, records of meetings, statistical tables, instructions to the local organisations in the towns of Satu Mare, Baia Mare, Baia Sprie and the villages Halmeu, Copalnic Mănăştur, Negreşti, Seini, Şomcuta Mare and their reports about achieving their tasks. The material in this fonds allows the predecessor of the JDC to be traced, namely the activity of the Jewish Popular Community of Northern Transylvania in 1944 and 1945, the organisation which from 1945 became the Jewish Democratic Committee subordinated to the objectives of the Communist Party. The fonds also includes the records concerning the abolishment of the organisation in 1953 and the taking over of its archives by the county branch of the Romanian Workers' Party.
- Archival history:
- This fonds was taken over in 1996 by the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- An organisation representing the interests of Holocaust survivors from Northern Transylvania appeared in the autumn of 1944 under the name Jewish Popular Community. It was established in Satu Mare county on 30 October 1944, with its headquarters in Satu Mare. In 1945 this organisation was included in the newly formed Jewish Democratic Committee, a satellite organisation of the Communist Party. In Satu Mare county the JDC was founded on 26 January 1947 with 2,450 members and a leadership of 12 members. The organisation accepted men and women who were resident in Satu Mare county and who had suffered the effects of the racial laws during the Holocaust. It functioned until 1953 and was an important support for both the installation of the Communist regime and the fight against the Zionist movement. It was abolished as a consequence of the antisemitic tendencies of the last period of the Stalinist regime in the USSR.
- Access points: locations:
- Baia Mare
- Baia Sprie
- Halmeu
- Negreşti
- Satu Mare
- Satu Mare county
- Seini
- Şomcuta Mare
- Subject terms:
- Communism
- Jewish political activity
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised into thematic files which are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 240, held by the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Attila Gidó (researcher, Institute for Study of National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor), 2017
