Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Cămin. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2010)
Historic data
the massive deportation of 1945. Then, 230 village inhabitants were transported to labor camps in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, to pay, together with other hundreds of thousands of Germans (mostly civilians), for the collective conviction for the effects of war, claimed by the Soviets. 33 of the persons deported from Cămin lost their lives in the camp. Collectivization had a great impact on the lives of Cămin’s inhabitants, for whom the agricultural production was a vital part of the family income. The first collective agricultural establishment was initiated in 1958, but it was perceived with reluctance by the villagers: only 19 families of a poorer condition entered as member. By 1960, however, by various means of coercion and compulsion, 365 families were included in the union, and in 1962, along with the enrolling in the collective of all the village residents, the collectivization ended. The Swab inhabitants of the village probably benefited from a school even from the first years after their settlement. Documentary information in this respect, however, is available only since 1812, when a new building for the school was erected. The fire in 1862 caused severe damages to the school building, which was rebuilt from the ground only in 1890. Starting with 1917, a state school operated in the village, but in a separate building from the confessional one. Statuia episcopului Schefiler János Scheffler János püspök szobra Statue of bishop Scheffler János 29
