Metadata: Administration of Baraolt prefecture
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:
- 124
- Title:
- Administration of Baraolt prefecture
- Title (official language):
- Pretura plăşii Baraolt
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Baraolt prefecture
- Date(s):
- 1940/1950
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 86 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the files of the administration of Baraolt prefecture from 1940 to 1950. It includes orders and instructions of the superior county authorities and of the administration of Baraolt prefecture to the mayor’s offices of the component localities concerning the economic, financial, agricultural, military and sanitary issues of the prefecture, statistics of the local population with details of professions and religious denominations and authorisations for local firms. Files with Jewish reference are connected with the implementation of the antisemitic policy of the Hungarian administration from 1940 to 1944 (expropriations of Jewish properties, restrictions imposed on Jewish firms, forced labour detachments), measures of reparation and restitution of Jewish properties after 1945 and investigations of war criminals (File No. 28/1947). There are also records concerning the installation of the Communist regime between 1948 and 1950.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was transferred to the Covasna county directorate of the Romanian National Archives and inventoried in 1970, being made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Before the First World War the localities of Baraolt prefecture were part of Trei Scaune county, organised in accordance with administrative law of 1866 issued by the Hungarian Parliament of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The county included at that time the prefectures of Kezdi, Sepsi, Orbai and Miklosvar. After the First World War the Romanian administration reorganised this part of the country as per the provisions of the Law for territorial unification of 1925. Baraolt prefecture was included in Trei Scaune county together with the prefectures of Covasna, Ozun, Sfîntu Gheorghe and Tîrgu Secuiesc. It had 11 localities under its jurisdiction. Between 1940 and 1944 the Hungarian administration was reintroduced, which included the Hungarian antisemitic legislation which had begun in the 1920s. In May-June 1944 the entire local population was deported to Auschwitz. In 1945 the Romanian administrative system was reinstalled based on the interwar model, before in 1950 the new Communist regime included Baraolt prefecture in the so-called Hungarian Autonomous Region. After the administrative reform of 1968 the localities of Baraolt prefecture became part of Covasna county.
- Access points: locations:
- Baraolt
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised in files arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory no. 130, 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 - 2019; Ladislau Gyémánt, emeritus professor - 2019