Metadata: Prefecture of Arad county
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Arad County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române. Direcţia Judeţeană Arad
- Postal address:
- Arad, Str. Ceaikovski nr. 2-6, cod 310052, judeţul Arad
- Phone number:
- 0257-233818
- Reference number:
- Fond 15
- Title:
- Prefecture of Arad county
- Title (official language):
- Prefectura judeţului Arad
- Creator/accumulator:
- Prefecture of Arad county
- Date(s):
- 1737/1950
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Latin
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 15,795 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the registers and files of the prefecture of Arad county from 1737 to 1950. It includes census records of the population of the county and the relationships between the landlords and peasants, records of the general assembly of the county, documents concerning the revolution of 1848, files of industrial enterprises, of the mining industry, records about schools and cultural life, files on the agrarian reforms of 1921 and 1945 and records of the Romanian-Hungarian commission of 1945 to establish the border between the two countries.
The following files contain specific Jewish references: no. 532 - expropriated estates with Jewish owners (1936); no. 53 - prohibition of Hehalutz (1938); no. 93 - statistics of Jewish students (1939); no. 150 - prohibition of fundraising by Jewish organisations (1939); no. 90 - forced labour by Jews (1942); no. 104 - expropriated Jewish buildings (1945); no. 33 - inventory of the properties of deported Jews (1949).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was originally held by the Popular Council of Arad county. It was transferred to the Arad County division of the Romanian National Archives after 1989, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Arad county was established in the medieval period as a part of the Hungarian kingdom. In the middle of the 17th century it was conquered by the Turkish empire, while at the end of the same century it became a part of the Austrian empire. Until 1867 it was led by local noblemen who elected the administration of the county in the shape of a county assembly. In the second half of the 19th century and in the first two decades of the 20th century Arad county functioned in accordance with the legislation of the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the First World War, it became a part of Romania and the Romanian administration introduced the institution of the prefecture led by a prefect nominated by the government in Bucharest. This system, based on the law of administrative unification published in 1925 and modified in 1929, functioned until 1950 when the newly installed Communist regime replaced the prefectures with regions led by elected Popular Councils. After the fall of the Communist regime in 1989 the model of prefectures as leading institutions of the counties was restored.
- Access points: locations:
- Arad county
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Education
- Forced labour (of Jews)
- Plunder
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised into thematic files which are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 34, 35, 57, 121, 164, 226, 571, 604, 1199, 1233, 1282, 1295/1298, 1305, 1321/1324, 1331, 1335, held by the Arad 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), 2018