Bessarabian Governorate

Correspondence on legal matters; correspondence on criminal cases; petitions of residents to issue certificates of civil status; orders on the administrative division of Bessarabia into districts and villages from 1941; orders regarding population census; orders regarding inventory of property; orders regarding youth mobilization; orders and instructions by Mihai Antonescu on administrative, cultural, economic, legal and agricultural issues; order on the organization of the commission for the inspection of those employees who remained on the territory of Bessarabia under the Soviet regime; petitions for the release of innocent people from the camps; decisions of the council of lawyers to restore Romanian citizenship; inspections of employees and inventory of property; decisions of the bar of attorneys on the issue of nationalization and inventory of Jewish property; petition to the council of lawyers to facilitate the punishment of political convicts; decisions of the bar of attorneys on the issue of certificates of Romanian origin; orders of the governorate regarding the prohibition of speaking foreign languages, with the exception of Romanian; orders on the registration of the Jewish population; orders on mobilization of non-working population for public works; orders, circulars and correspondence on the organization of military section in the civil-military office; on the inspection and appointment of employees; petitions of residents to release from the camp those relatives who were at work in the USSR; decisions of the council of lawyers on the deprivation or restoration of rights regarding nationalized property; decisions of the council of attorneys regarding baptized Jews; decisions about individuals who arrived from the left bank of Dniester river during the Soviet era; decisions on the nationalization of property of citizens who left for Germany or were evacuated to the USSR; correspondence with the police regarding the inspection of certain citizens suspected in connection with the Soviet authorities; correspondence on the case of Solomon Shur; correspondence with the police and civilian inspector regarding the verification of “unreliable elements” by the commissions; correspondence with the police about the imprisonment of these 'elements' in concentration camps; decisions of the council of attorneys on imprisoning in the camps those 'unreliable elements' who represent danger to the state; decisions of the bar of attorneys on the restoration of citizenship to individuals of German origin; decisions on the imprisonment of suspicious individuals in camps and the nationalization of Jewish capital; decisions on establishing surveillance of the 'unreliable elements'; order to evict wandering Roma people from Bessarabia, et. al. Public access, no restrictions on access The Bessarabian Governorate was organized based on the law of the Romanian government of September 4, 1941. All administrative authority in the territory of the former Bessarabia was entrusted to the governorship led by the governor. The functions of the governorship included the management and control of the activities of all the administrative bodies of Bessarabia. The directories, local authorities, and the council of the governorship, which coordinated and directed the administrative activities, were subjected to the governor. The Bessarabian Governorate is liquidated in 1944 Îndrumătorul Arhivei Naţionale a Republicii Moldova (partea II-a, 1918 – începutul secolului XXI, ediţia a II-a, revăzută şi completată). Chişinău, 2012: 30 Restrictions on use. Fair use only. Use only for scientific purposes (not for commercial use)