Boys Elementary School Nr 1 of Rădăuți

Collection

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 collection is for one of three public elementary schools in Rădăuți. The collection is fairly comprehensive with few gaps in years or class register books.

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.

Administrative/biographical history:: Alhough it is described as a boys’ school, to begin with at least it was attended by both boys and girls. This school was primarily attended by Romanian children, but reflective of the diversity of the town, there were also German, Jewish, and Ukrainian pupils. For example, in 1903 one first-grade class contained 46 pupils, of whom 23 were Romanian Orthodox, 15 Roman Catholic, three Greek Catholic (Eastern Catholic), two Protestant and three Jewish. Of these, 25 claimed Romanian as their mother tongue, 20 German, and one Ruthenian (Ukrainian). In later years it appears that the school became more exclusively Romanian.