Metadata: Administration of Beliu district
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 138
- Title:
- Administration of Beliu district
- Title (official language):
- Pretura Plăşii Beliu
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Beliu district
- Date(s):
- 1937/1950
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 111 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the files of the administration of Beliu district from 1937 to 1950. It contains administrative records from the years immediately prior to the Second World War, reports concerning the state of mind of the local population during the war years, the settlement of refugees from Northern Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina, measures taken after the defeat of the rebellion of January 1941 of the extreme-right legionary movement, lists of war casualties, widows and orphans and state dispositions to ensure their support.
The following files contain specific Jewish references: no. 7 - property of the local Jewish population (1940); no. 16 - statistical data of the Jewish population (1941); no. 28 - statistical data and status of the Jewish population (1942); no. 40 - evacuation of the Jewish population from the border areas (1943).
- 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:
- Before the First World War the district of Beliu was part of Bihor county. It was reorganised after the Romanian administration was installed in accordance with the law issued on 14 June 1925 by the Romanian parliament concerning the administrative unification of Greater Romania. It included 12 villages in Bihor county and had its seat in Beliu. The district was headed by an administrator nominated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and subordinated to the prefect of the county, implementing the decisions and instructions issued by the county council. The main task of the district administration was to control and supervise the activity of the mayors’ offices of the villages and to ensure public order and security. The head of the district administration was obliged to visit the villages of the district at least quarterly. This system continued throughout the Second World War and the years following until it was replaced in 1950 by the new administrative model introduced by the newly installed Communist regime.
- Access points: locations:
- Beliu
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Real estate
- Resettlement of Jews
- Statistics
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised into thematic files which are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 205, 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