Metadata: Collection of nationality registers from Hunedoara county
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:
- 92
- Title:
- Collection of nationality registers from Hunedoara county
- Title (official language):
- Colecţia Registre de naţionalitate din judeţul Hunedoara
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mayoral offices of Hunedoara county
- Date(s):
- 1924/1951
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 325 registers
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the files nationality registers of the localities in Hunedoara county from 1924 to 1951. These registers were introduced in 1924 in accordance with the so-called Law Mârzescu concerning the acquisition and removal of Romanian nationality. In every locality in the newly annexed provinces of the Kingdom of Romania (Transylvania, Bukovina, Bessarabia) the mayor’s offices established such registers were recorded the details of those inhabitants who managed to prove their Romanian nationality. This made it possible for the authorities to refuse Romanian nationality to those members of the Jewish population who immigrated to Romania after the First World War, especially from Russia and Ukraine where there were frequent pogroms during the civil war. The nationality registers recorded the family heads and family members with their dates of birth and residence in alphabetical order. The registers were revised in 1938 by the antisemitic Goga-Cuza government, the revision resulting the loss of nationality rights for one third of the Jewish population. A new revision took place after the Second World War in 1945-46, registering the effects of the Holocaust.
- Archival history:
- The registers of nationality were preserved by the mayor’s offices of the individual localities. They were transferred after 1989 to the Hunedoara county directorate of the Romanian National Archives where they were inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jews in Romania only received nationality rights after the First World War, when the constitution of 1923 at last recognised the citizenship of the Jewish population. This achievement, due in large part to the Minority Treaties imposed on Romania by the peace conference in Paris, was limited in February 1924 by the so-called Law Mârzescu which imposed numerous conditions for the recognition of nationality rights, introducing nationality registers in the newly annexed provinces of Greater Romania. These registers were revised in 1938 by the first antisemitic government of Romania in the interwar period and the restrictive obligations of this revision resulted in the loss of nationality rights for one third of the Jewish population. A new revision took place after the Second World War in order to register the effects of the Holocaust period on the number of the Jewish population.
- Access points: locations:
- Hunedoara
- Subject terms:
- Citizenship
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes the nationality registers arranged by locality. Within them the names of inhabitants with nationality rights are inscribed in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory no. 82, 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
