Metadata: Judicial Institutions, Courts, and Lawyers, Prosecutors, Notaries
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Chernivtsi Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Чернівеської області
- Reference number:
- Фонд 128, Опис. 1
- Title:
- Judicial Institutions, Courts, and Lawyers, Prosecutors, Notaries
- Title (official language):
- Установи юстиції, суду та прокуратури, адвокатура, нотаріат.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Prosecutor of the Chernivtsi Regional Tribunal
- Date(s):
- 1919/1944
- Date note:
- 1919-1940; 1941-1944
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 12,888 archival units/folders (4 inventories)
- Scope and content:
-
This collection contains the records created by the Prosecutor’s Office of the Chernivtsi Regional Tribunal. It deals with judicial issues that occurred as Bukovina transitioned from a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to a part of Romania, including the liquidation of Austro-Hungarian judicial and legal structures. This collection concludes in 1944 when Bukovina became a part of the Soviet Union and has a break from 1940-1941 when the fate of Bukovina became uncertain as the territory was passed between Nazi-allied Romania and the Soviet Union during WWII.
This collection includes court cases involving local Jewish residents, some brought by them and some brought against them. These cases fall into the following categories relevant to Jewish history: criminal cases, family law, commercial activity, citizenship issues, relations with the organised Jewish community, and political crimes.
Criminal Cases: legal documents related to petty crimes, murder, counterfeiting and other financial crimes, bribery, and illegal trade.
Family/Individual law: legal documents related to settling civil disputes, suicides, marriages and divorces, alimony.
Commercial activity: legal documents on land use/sale disputes, fines levied on businesses, vandalism on Jewish businesses, permits to open, operate, and close businesses, placements in psychiatric hospitals.
Citizenship issues: As Romania took over parts of Bukovina, debates arose whether to grant Jewish residents Romanian citizenship. This collection has documents relevant to the citizenship question of Jewish residents, as Romania became a part of the Axis powers in the 1930s. This collection contains relevant records, including registrations of births, marriages, and WWI veteran status to prove citizenship, changing family names, inheritance, recognising Romanian citizenship cases, stripping Jews of Romanian citizenship. Most importantly, there are legal documents from 1938 about Romanian citizenship question for those of Jewish origin along with a list of Jews who had received Romanian citizenship.
Relations with the organised Jewish community: Legal documents on investigating synagogues for illegal political activity and hooliganism, permits to open Jewish organisations, oversight of community funds.
Political: Legal documents on action taken against artists and academics for not participating in the Romanian Academy, crimes against journalists, and Jewish residents accused of insults against local government.
- Access points: locations:
- Chernivtsi
- Yerusha Network member:
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum