Girls Elementary School Nr 2 of Rădăuți

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

Scope and content:: The collection contains hundreds of class registers spanning 75 years for one of the three public elementary schools for girls in Rădăuți. The collection is comprehensive with few gaps in years or class registers. It appears that the majority of the girls attending this school came from Jewish families and the others from German families. For example, one second-grade class from 1918 consists of 54 pupils, of whom 30 are Jewish, 19 Roman Catholic, two Protestant and three Greek Catholic (Eastern Catholic). Of these, 51 claim German as their mother tongue and three Ruthenian (Ukrainian). The other second-grade class for that year consists of 56 girls, all of whom have German as their mother tongue. The religious breakdown is 28 Jews, 24 Catholics, three Protestants, and one Eastern Catholic.

Archival history:: The records were maintained by the school and collected by the Suceava branch of the National Archives after World War II and the restructuring of the school system by the communist regime.