Administration of Pui district

Collection

Holding institution:: National Archives of Romania, Hunedoara county directorate

Holding institution (official language):: Serviciul judeţean Hunedoara al Arhivelor Naţionale Române

Scope and content:: The fonds comprises the files of the administration of Pui district in Hunedoara county from 1857 to 1950. It includes registers of entrance and issue of official correspondence, records of administrative conferences of local administration from the interwar period, records concerning the organisation and functions of the local services and institutions, political, religious, economic, agricultural, sanitary, educational problems of the district, the implementation of the agrarian reforms of 1921 and 1945 and records of inspections of the district administration in the localities under its jurisdiction. The following files include Jewish references: File No. 7/1944 - statistical tables of the Jewish population of the district; No. 11/1944 - the status of expropriated Jewish properties and assistance for Jewish refugees from Hungary; No. 12/1944 - orders and reports concerning war criminals and their trials.

Archival history:: The fonds was in the custody of the Popular Council of Pui, being transferred to the Hunedoara county directorate of the Romanian National Archives after 1989. It was inventoried and made available to researchers.

Administrative/biographical history:: Until 1876 the district of Pui was part of Hunedoara county. In 1876 the Hungarian parliament issued a law on administrative organisation with divided Hunedoara country into ten districts, including that of Pui, which was maintained until the end of the First World War. After the First World War the Romanian administration issued the law of territorial unification of 1925, which divided Hunedoara county into 13 districts. One of them was the district of Pui which had 28 villages under its jurisdiction. During the Second World War, the district administration was in charge of implementing the antisemitic policy of the Antonescu dictatorship, while after 1945 it had to implement compensation measures and procedures against war criminals in the area. The administration of Pui district functioned until 1949 when the Communist regime introduced the so-called Popular Councils as organs of the local administration which remained in place until 1989.

System of arrangement:: The fonds is organised in thematic sections, within which the records are arranged in chronological order.

Finding aids:: Inventory no. 86, held by the Hunedoara county directorate of the Romanian National Archives.

Yerusha Network member:: Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities

Author of the description:: Tóth Levente, archivist - Protestant Theological Institute - 2019; Ladislau Gyémánt, emeritus professor - 2019