Metadata: Security office railway station Simeria
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Hunedoara county directorate
- Holding institution (official language):
- Serviciul judeţean Hunedoara al Arhivelor Naţionale Române
- Postal address:
- Strada Aurel Vlaicu 2, Deva 330005
- Phone number:
- 0040-254-213875
- Reference number:
- 25
- Title:
- Security office railway station Simeria
- Title (official language):
- Biroul de siguranţă Simeria Gară
- Creator/accumulator:
- Security office railway station Simeria
- Date(s):
- 1921/1949
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 99 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the files of the Security Office of the railway station in Simeria from 1921 to 1949. It includes reports and informative notes concerning the state of mind of the population at different points in time - the inter-war period, the Second World War, the years immediately after 1945, when the political struggle for power was intense between the traditional democratic parties and Communist parties and organisations, and the beginning of the Communist regime. The fonds contains records concerning the illegal Communist activities from the inter-war years and during the war, of the labour movement and of the legionary antisemitic propaganda and actions. The following files include Jewish references: No. 1/1932 - Legionary, Communist and antisemitic activities; No. 3/1938 - Iron Guard and antisemitism; No. 19/1944 - Frontier guard reports concerning Jewish refugees in the period of deportations from Northern Transylvania.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was preserved by the archives of the Securitatea from the Communist period, being transferred to the Hunedoara county directorate of the Romanian National Archives after 1989, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Security Office (Siguranţa Statului) was founded on 27 June 1919 when the Direction of Police and General Security was organised under the jurisdiction of the Ministry for Internal Affairs. In 1924 it was was subordinated to the Superior Council for the Defence of the State, led by the king of Romania. Its responsibility was to ensure state security, including protecting the integrity of the Romanian national state and neutralising various illegal movements that jeopardised the interests of the state, among them especially the illegal Communist movement and later also the extreme right legionary movement. It had offices in every important strategic centre, including the main railway stations supervising any suspect movements in the railway traffic. Its role was extended during the Second World War to cover activities believed to threaten the country’s war effort, including those of Jewish communities and organisations. After the Second World War it focused also on Zionist activities. Siguranţa Statului was replaced after 1949 by the Communist regime with the Securitatea Statului, the political police which dominated the Romanian society until the fall of Communism in 1989.
- Access points: locations:
- Simeria
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Communism
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Deportation
- Refugees
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised in thematic files, within which the registers and records are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory no. 233, 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:
- Attila Gidó, researcher, Institute for Study of National Minorities Cluj-Napoca - 2019; Ladislau Gyémánt, emeritus professor - 2019
