Boys Elementary School of Siret

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:: This collections spans 125 years and consists of many hundreds of register books or files. From 1826-90 the collection is not complete; there are records for 1826-28, 1838, 1840, 1850, 1863, 1865-66, 1869, 1875, 1877, 1879, 1882 and 1886. Beginning in 1890 there are generally class registry books for every year and every class. While in 1826 there were no Jewish pupils, by the 1880s Jews made up a considerable part of the student body alongside Germans, Poles, Romanians and Ruthenians. In 1900 for example, one first-grade class had 55 pupils, of whom 24 were Jewish, 17 Roman Catholic, 10 Greek Orthodox and four Greek Catholic (Eastern Catholic). Of these, 32 claimed German as their mother tongue, 16 Ruthenian (Ukrainian), six Polish and one Romanian. In 1915 first-grade class "A" had 78 pupils, of whom 43 were Jewish, 20 Roman Catholic, 14 Greek Orthodox and one Protestant. Of these, 64 claimed German as their mother-tongue and 13 Romanian. First grade class "B" had no Jewish students.

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.