Metadata: Prefecture 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 14
- Title:
- Prefecture of Satu Mare county
- Title (official language):
- Prefectura Județului Satu Mare
- Creator/accumulator:
- Prefecture of Satu Mare county
- Date(s):
- 1895/1950
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 4,324 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the records issued by the prefecture of Satu Mare county from 1895 to 1950. They refer to the administration, economy, social-political activities and cultural life of the county, containing correspondence with the central authorities, decisions concerning the administration of the county, the construction of public buildings and budget sheets.
The following files contain specific Jewish references: no. 13 - reports and decisions concerning the Jewish population of the county (1939-1941); no. 33 - restrictions applied to the Jewish population in accordance with antisemitic legislation (1940); no. 140 - expropriation of Jewish properties (1941-1944); no. 19 - restrictions concerning the activity of Jewish craftsmen and merchants (1942-1944); no. 51 - confiscation of radio sets belonging to Jews (1943); no. 27 - list of drugstores with Jewish owners (1944); no. 48 - restitution of properties to survivors of the Holocaust (1946); no. 3 - situation and statistical data concerning the properties of victims of the Holocaust (1948-1949).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was originally held by the popular council of Satu Mare county. It was transferred to the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives in 1969 by the state archives of Cluj in 1971, 1973 and 1974. It was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Satu Mare county is mentioned for the first time in medieval documents in 1199. After the establishment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1867, which replaced the Austrian Empire, the law of territorial organisation of Hungary was adopted in 1876, which included the county of Satu Mare. After the First World War, the newly installed Romanian administration adopted in 1925 the law concerning the unification of the administrative system of so-called Greater Romania and prefectures were instituted above counties as the main centres of local administration. In 1940 the Hungarian administrative system was reintroduced, while in 1945 the prefectures were reinstalled by the reorganised Romanian administration. In 1948 the Communist regime abolished the former administrative model, the prefectures being replaced by the so-called Popular Councils.
- Access points: locations:
- Satu Mare county
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised into thematic files which are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 29 (for the years 1902-1944); 30 (1895-1950); 34 ( 1938-1940); 38 (1944-1949); 163 (1940); 165 (1941-1945); 166 (1941-1944); 167 (1920-1950), 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