Carei district committee of the Romanian Workers' Party

Collection

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

Title (official language):: Comitetul Raional Carei al Partidului Comunist Român

Creator/accumulator:: Carei district committee of the Romanian Workers' Party

Scope and content:: This fonds comprises the records of the Carei district committee of the Romanian Communist Party (until 1965: Romanian Workers' Party) from 1948to 1967, including records of meetings of the committee, work plans, decisions, reports and informations sent to the superior party authorities, documents of the district party conferences, payrolls, financial documents, lists of party members, statistical tables and details on the number of candidates accepted to become party members. The lists and statistics include Jewish party members from the organisations subordinated to the Carei district committee and those included in the so-called nomenklatura as persons elected or nominated in different positions of the party hierarchy. Their number steadily declines over time due to Aliyah of a large part of Jews from this part of Romania and the increasingly pronounced latent antisemitism of the National-Communist orientation introduced by Nicolae Ceauşescu after 1965.

Archival history:: The fonds was originally held by the prefecture of Satu Mare county. It was transferred to the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives in 1996, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.

Administrative/biographical history:: In the early 1950s, in accordance with the new system of the administrative organisation of the country, the structure of the Romanian Workers' Party was reorganised into regional and district committees, with the organisations of the newly introduced regions and districts under their jurisdiction. On 4 September 1950 the plenum of the secretaries if the former districts of Carei, Andrid, Supur and Tăşnad took place, which were included in the new district of Carei. On 10-11 November 1951 the district party conference was organised, which elected the Carei district committee. This had under its authority 113 local organisations and 2282 party members. Its activity was based on annual, trimestrial and monthly plans of work and the fulfilment of its objectives was discussed in meetings of the board of the committee, in committee plenary meetings and in the conferences of the district organisation. The name of the party was changed in 1965 to Romanian Communist Party and the districts were abolished during the reorganisation of the administrative system in 1968 by the Ceauşescu regime.

Access points: locations:: Andrid; Carei; Romania; Satmar county; Satu Mare; Supur; Tăşnad; Transylvania

System of arrangement:: The fonds is organised into thematic files which are arranged in chronological order.

Finding aids:: The inventory has not been digitised. It can only be consulted in the study room.

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