Metadata: Police Department Lipova
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Arad county directorate
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Nationale Române. Direcţia judeţeană Arad
- Postal address:
- Strada Piotr Ilici Ceaikovski 2-6, 310052 Arad
- Phone number:
- 0040-257-233818
- Reference number:
- 879
- Title:
- Police Department Lipova
- Title (official language):
- Detaşamentul de poliţie Lipova
- Creator/accumulator:
- Police Department Lipova
- Date(s):
- 1935/1949
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 53 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds includes the files of the Police Department Lipova from 1935 to 1949. As Lipova is an area close to the border, during this time the main activity of the local police was concentrated on establishing the state of mind of the local population, registration of strangers, status of refugees from Bessarabia and Bukovina (provinces which were given up by Romania after an ultimatum from the Soviet Union in June 1940), the mobilisation and concentration of the population during the Second World War, requisitions ordered by the Red Army after its arrival in the Lipova area in 1944, and the fight against speculation in the post-war years. References to Jewish issues appear in files 8/1841, 2/1944 and 3/1944, including information on the economic activities of the Jewish population, provisions of reparation for abuses suffered during the Antonescu dictatorship and the restitution of Jewish properties.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was in the custody of the Popular Militia of Lipova. After 1989 it was transferred to the Arad county directorate of the Romanian National Archives, inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Police Department of Lipova functioned until the First World War in accordance with the legislation of the Austro-Hungarian state. In 1920 it was reorganised in the framework of the Police of Greater Romania. On 20 July 1929 Law No. 2432 was issued, concerning the organisation of the general police of the Romanian state, which was modified in April 1931 and May 1932. This law established police departments in all town which were not county capitals, subordinate to the county police department. The tasks of these departments were to assure public security, to establish the state of mind of the local population and to register the presence of strangers in this frontier area. During the Second World War, the local police put into practice the anti-Jewish provisions adopted by the Antonescu dictatorship and assured that all inhabitants participated in the country’s war effort. After 1945 the main responsibility was the fight against speculation in the difficult conditions of food shortages caused by severe drought. The police was also involved in requisitions for the Soviet army and in the fulfilment of reparatory provisions for the Jewish population.
- Access points: locations:
- Lipova
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is comprised of files, which are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories no.1297 and 1304, held by the Arad county directorate 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 - 2018; Ladislau Gyémánt, emeritus professor - 2018
