Metadata: Prefecture of Trei Scaune county
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Covasna county directorate
- Holding institution (official language):
- Serviciul judeţean Covasna al Arhivelor Naţionale Române
- Postal address:
- Strada General Grigore Bălan 12, Sfântu Gheorghe
- Phone number:
- 0040-267-310645
- Web address:
- arhivelenationale-covasna.ro
- Email:
- covasna@arhivelenationale.ro
- Reference number:
- 9
- Title:
- Prefecture of Trei Scaune county
- Title (official language):
- Prefectura judeţului Trei Scaune
- Creator/accumulator:
- Prefecture of Trei Scaune county
- Date(s):
- 1876/1970
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 486.81 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the files of the Prefecture of Trei Scaune county from 1876 to 1970. It contains registers of entrance and issue of records and official correspondence, bookkeeping registers of the office, electoral registers including names of the electors, personal files of the employees and records of committee meetings of the institution. Files with Jewish references are mostly from the Holocaust and post-Holocaust period, as follows: File No. 113/1940 - Forced labour camps; File No. 65/1941 - Anti-Jewish restrictions and punishment for their offenders; Files No. 1-2/1944 - Ghettoisation of Jews from Trei Scaune county; Jewish properties; File No. 3/1944 - Dismissal of Jewish employees; File No. 4/1944 - Petitions of Jews to the office; File No. 102/1945 - Jewish properties; File No. 488/1946 - Restitution of Jewish goods; File No. 4/1948 - Certificates for survivors of deportations.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was preserved by the Popular Council of Covasna county. It was transferred to the Covasna county directorate of the Romanian National Archives between 1955 and 1968, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The county of Trei Scaune was organised in accordance with Law XXXIII/1876 adopted by the Hungarian parliament and included the former Szekler administrative units Sepsi, Kezdi and Orbai. Some localities from the former county of Upper Alba were also included in it. It was divided into eight districts. After the First World War it was reorganised by the administrative law adopted by the Romanian parliament in 1925, becoming the county of Trei Scaune. It was led by a county council elected for four years with a prefect nominated by the government who had under his authority the deputy prefect, police director and notary of the county. In 1936 the tasks of the perfect were extended as he became head of the county police and gendarmerie. Between 1940 and 1944 the county reentered under Hungarian administration while after 1945 the interwar system was reintroduced by the reinstalled Romanian regime. After 1950 the Communist regime included this region in the Autonomous Hungarian District, while the 1968 administrative reform of the Ceauşescu government transformed it into the county of Covasna, under which name it exists until today.
- Access points: locations:
- Covasna
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised in thematic sections, within which the files are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories no. 3, 7, 8, 16, 17, 21, 25, 26, 27, 133, 213, 217, 281, 305, 399, 568, 603, 632, 844, 845, 850, 852, 853, 859, held by the Covasna 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 - 2018; Ladislau Gyémánt, emeritus professor - 2018