Metadata: Hungarian Gymnasium for girls of Baia Mare
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale. Direcţia judeţeană Maramureş
- Postal address:
- Bulevardul Bucureşti 26, Baia Mare 430052, judeţul Maramureş
- Phone number:
- 0262-437948
- Email:
- maramures.an@mai.gov.ro
- Reference number:
- Fond 20
- Title:
- Hungarian Gymnasium for girls of Baia Mare
- Title (official language):
- Gimnaziul de fete maghiar Baia Mare
- Creator/accumulator:
- Hungarian Gymnasium for girls of Baia Mare
- Date(s):
- 1942/1948
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 37 registers
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises 37 registers of the Hungarian Gymnasium for girls of Baia Mare from 1942 to 1948. The annual registers include for each student their name, religious denomination, ethnic origin, birth date and birth place, the name, residence and profession of their parents and their results in school subjects, including the final outcome of the year - promoted, not promoted or compelled to repeat the exams.
The number of Jewish students is reduced first due to the antisemitic legislation introduced by the Hungarian administration of Northern Transylvania, which established a numerus clauses of 3% for Jewish students and then by the effects of the Holocaust. The Jewish population from Baia Mare, which in 1941 numbered 810 persons out of a total population of 25,841, was deported to Auschwitz in May 1944, with the percentage of survival from the whole of Northern Transylvania being around 13%.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was held by the School Inpectorate of Maramureş county before it was transferred to the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives, where it was inventoried and made accessible to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- From 1940 the Hungarian Gymnasium for girls of Baia Mare was under the jurisdiction of the Hungarian administration of Northern Transylvania, including its antisemitic legislation which was begun in 1920 and included no fewer than 21 other anti-Jewish laws adopted between 1938 and 1944. This legislation introduced a numerus clauses of 3% for Jewish students. After 1945 this legislation was abolished and the Hungarian Gymnasium for girls of Baia Mare functioned until 1948 in the framework of the Romanian legislation from the inter-war period, which permitted Hungarian as a language of instruction but also imposed the teaching of the Romanian language and the history and geography of Romania in Romanian. In 1948 the Communist regime introduced a reform of the educational system which abolished the Hungarian Gymnasium for girls, imposing mixed education in the entire school system in Romania.
- Access points: locations:
- Baia Mare
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- System of arrangement:
- The registers are arranged chronologically, with the students’ names in alphabetical order within.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 807, held by the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Anton Dörner (retired researcher), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor) 2018
