Secondary School (Gr. Or. Oberrealschule) of Czernowitz

Collection description

Holding institution (official language):: Arhivele Naționale ale României, Direcţia Judeţeană Suceava

Postal address:: Arhivele Naționale ale României, Direcţia Judeţeană Suceava, Strada Ştefan cel Mare nr. 33, cod 720003, jud. Suceava Romania

Creator/accumulator:: Secondary School (Gr. Or. Oberrealschule) of Czernowitz

Scope and content:: This collection contains six items from a secondary school in Czernowitz (Romanian Cernăuți, Ukrainian Чернівці́/Chernivtsi). During World War II many documents from northern Bukovina were "evacuated" to southern Bukovina or elsewhere in Romania. This evacuation of documents was often incomplete and many documents have been lost, which may explain the collection’s presence in Suceava and its small size given that its dates span nearly a century. It is possible that other records for this school are held in archival repositories in Czernowitz or elsewhere in Romania. For details on the items in the collection, see the entry at http://jbat.lbi.org/, subfield ‘contains’, and click on any link.

Archival history:: These records were presumably maintained by the school itself until sometime during the interwar period, at which time they were apparently collected by a Romanian government authority (possibly an archival institute or school administrative institute in Czernowitz). During World War II the records were probably "evacuated" to Suceava after the Soviets took over Czernowitz in 1940.

Administrative/biographical history:: This school existed from at least the 1850s to the interwar period. The school appears to have changed names several times over the years. Until the interwar period, Jewish students made up a significant portion of the student body.