Metadata: Town hall of Lupeni
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:
- 73
- Title:
- Town hall of Lupeni
- Title (official language):
- Primăria oraşului Lupeni
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town hall of Lupeni
- Date(s):
- 1917/1989
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 587 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the files of the Town Hall of Lupeni from 1917 to 1989. It includes records concerning the town’s administration, files of investments by the town authorities in the interwar period, financial administration and pay rolls of its employees. From the period of Second World War there are many references to the participation in the county’s war effort, military requisitions, the state of mind of the population and the situation of families of those who left for the front, as well as documents relating to the involvement of the Town Hall in the antisemitic policy of the Antonescu regime. After 1950 there are registers of the meetings of the Popular Council which led the town until 1989. The following files include Jewish references: No. 4/1926 - census of the Jewish population; No. 2/1938 - lists of Jewish merchants; No. 5/1941 - situation of Jewish properties; No. 4/1943 - Jewish refugees.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was preserved by the Popular Council of Lupeni, being transferred after 1989 to the Hunedoara county directorate of the Romanian National Archives where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Lupeni is one of the main mining centres of the Jiu valley. Coal mining started in 1868 and until the First World War it was an important area in this regard in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This was responsible for the increase of the local population, which numbered 8,028 in 1910 but had risen to 13,870 inhabitants, 333 of whom were Jewish, by the time of the 1930 census. During the Second World War the area had an important role in supplying the army with the necessary coal, which resulted in security measures as well as the implementation of antisemitic policies of the Antonescu regime. The Jewish population was evacuated from strategically sensitive areas and Jewish properties were “Romanised”. After 1949 the Communist regime accorded great importance to the mining industry and made investments into the development of the region. This policy lasted until the end of the Ceauşescu era, when the revolutionary actions of the miners resulted in repressive measures until 1989.
- 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. 955, 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
