Metadata: State primary school No. 9 of Sighet
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 710
- Title:
- State primary school No. 9 of Sighet
- Title (official language):
- Şcoala primară de stat No. 9 Sighet
- Creator/accumulator:
- State primary school No. 9 of Sighet
- Date(s):
- 1937/1950
- Extent:
- 7 registers
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds comprises 7 registers of the state primary school No. 9 of Sighet from 1937 to 1950. The annual registers include for each student their name, birth date and birth place, their ethnic origin and religious affiliation, the name, residence and profession of their parents and their results in school subjects, including the final result of every grade. In the first years of existence of this primary school there were many Jewish students as Sighet had a very substantial Jewish population. The census from 1930 registered 10,526 Jews in a total population of 27,270 inhabitants, while in 1941 there were still 6,391 Jewish inhabitants out of a population of 28,139 persons. After 1940 the antisemitic legislation drastically reduced the proportion of Jewish student due to the numerus clausus and in 1944 the entire Jewish population was ghettoised and then deported to Auschwitz. After the Second World War there was still a relatively large number of survivors in Sighet (1381 Jews in 1956) but most of them made Aliyah in the following decades.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was held by primary school No. 9 of Sighet 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:
- The state primary school No. 9 of Sighet was established after the First World War in accordance with the Romanian law of primary education issued in 1924 by the secretary of education Constantin Anghelescu which established the Romanian teaching language in the primary schools in villages with Romanian population. Access was not at all limited for Jewish students until 1940 when the Romanian and then the Hungarian antisemitic legislation imposed a numerus clausus of 6% and then 3%. After 1945 there almost no Jewish students in the school, due to the fact that the entire Jewish population of Maramureş county was first ghettoised in Sighet and then deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and most of the survivors made Aliyah in the following years. The primary school No. 9 of Sighet functioned in the interwar framework until 1948, when the new Communist regime introduced a radical reform of the entire educational system.
- Access points: locations:
- Sighet
- 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. 1341, 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:
- Levente Tóth (archivist, Protestant Theological Institute Cluj), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor), 2018
