Metadata: Cernăuți Professional School for Craftsmen
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Ilfov County Branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naționale ale României, Direcţia Judeţeană Ilfov
- Postal address:
- Str. Leaota nr. 2A, sector 6; cod. 061344; Bucureşti
- Phone number:
- +40 021 777 4993
- Email:
- ilfov@arhivelenationale.ro
- Reference number:
- Școala Profesională de Maiștri Cernăuți (nr. current 740; inv. 548).
- Title:
- Cernăuți Professional School for Craftsmen
- Title (official language):
- Școala Profesională de Maiștri Cernăuți
- Creator/accumulator:
- Cernăuți Professional School for Craftsmen
- Date(s):
- 1874/1944
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- German
- Extent:
- 120 items
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
Please note that collections held by the National Archives of Ilfov are highly fragmented due to the fact that they were evacuated from inter-war Romanian territory coming under Soviet control at the end of World War II. The material was held by disparate branches of the national archives around the country until the post-communist period.
This collection contains files from a school or several schools operating under a variety of names and it is not clear whether the school changed names over the years or whether documents from several schools have been collected under the title of this collection. From a survey of four items within the collection, the following names for the educational institute were found: k.k. Staats-Gewerbeschule Czernowitz; Școala de Conducatori și Desenători de Arhitectură Cernăuți; Liceul Industrial de Construcții Civile și Edilitare Cernăuți. Please note none of these correspond with the title of this collection. From the registers surveyed it is evident that Jewish students made up a large part of the student body and quite possibly represented an absolute majority for many years. This collection is relatively extensive and contains comprehensive matriculation and grade registers for the entire time covered, with gaps during the years of World War I and fewer items during the late 1930s and World War II period. Without performing a comprehensive survey of the material, it is difficult to ascertain the organisation of the school, but it appears that this collection represents a sub-department of the k.k. Staats-Gewerbeschule Czernowitz, the baugewerbliche Abteilung (department for architecture and design). For example, a register from 1879-1880 is titled Hauptkatalog der baugewerblichen Abtheilung (main catalogue for the department of architecture and design) and is further subtitled as Werkmeisterschule für Baugewerbe (professional school for architecture and design). A register from 1903-1904 contains graduation reports (Abgangszeugnisse) for the Bau-, Tischlerei- und Handelsschule (school for construction, carpentry and commerce), all of which have separate sections within the book. Registers from the Austro-Hungarian period almost always contain biographical details of the students, such as birth place and date, parent names and occupations, religion, nationality, mother tongue. In addition to matriculation records, files from the interwar period include diploma receipts or complete diplomas which were never picked up. These frequently include photographs of the student. Many of the students in the files surveyed were Jewish. Please note that time did not permit the surveying archivists to examine the contents of numerous folders and thus no specific details can be given as to additional Jewish-related material, but in light of the significant Jewish population in the region and the relatively unknown nature of these holdings, almost all material originating in Bukovina is included in the present catalogue.
Please note that, at the time of the survey, inventory numbers were not in use at the Ilfov archives. The inventories of collections from northern Bukovina were arranged by (interwar) county in folders. Numbers were pasted onto the cover, but archival staff did not treat these as inventory numbers, nor were they used to locate the inventories. These numbers are, however, provided here, in case protocol changes in the future.
- Archival history:
- This material was most likely evacuated from Cernăuți during or shortly after World War II. It appears to have been initially processed (in 1984) and maintained by the Suceava branch of the National Archives. In the post-communist period it was transferred to the Ilfov branch of the National Archives in the course of measures to centralise documents from territories that are no longer part of Romania.
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Access, restrictions:
- The Ilfov archives are located on a military base and heightened security measures are in place. Visitors may be required to be accompanied by staff to and from the entrance.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Leo Baeck Institute
