Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Cămin. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2010)
Historic data
related to living near a swamp, but impelled strongly the agriculture in the area: Cămin’s agricultural land increased with almost 400 hectares. The tumultuous events that Satu Mare went through at the end of World War I, before its annexation to Romania, affected Cămin as well. The short regime of the Counsels’ Republic in Hungary brought about persecution at local level, too, against those perceived as opponents of the Socialists. In Satu Mare County, one of the first to be arrested was the priest of Cămin, accused of instigating the spirits against the new political order. The priest was arrested and imprisoned in Satu Mare, managing to escape conviction and even the possible execution only after the favorable intervention of a senior judicial clerk. The integration of a part of Satu Mare County (which included Cămin) to Romania led to the end of the Counsels’ Republic in the area, after only two months of operation (March-April 1919). In the period 1940-1945, Cămin’s residents were largely affected by the political and administrative changes that occurred during and immediately after the Second World War. Besides those who lost their lives on the frontline, 17 inhabitants of the village were arrested and interned by the Romanian army in Feldioara Camp, as they were considered deserters. Four of them lost their lives. The biggest trauma for the German population in Cămin was, however, Biserica romano-catolică din Cămin A kálmándi római katolikus templom The Roman-Catholic Church of Cămin 27
