Metadata: State primary school of Rozavlea
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 660
- Title:
- State primary school of Rozavlea
- Title (official language):
- Şcoala primară de stat Rozavlea
- Creator/accumulator:
- State primary school of Rozavlea
- Date(s):
- 1901/1948
- Extent:
- 1.15 linear metres (135 registers and catalogues)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises 135 registers and catalogues of the state primary school of Rozavlea from 1901 to 1948. 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. The catalogues record the presence of every student and their marks for every day of the academic year.
The students were mostly Romanian, but there was a substantial Jewish community in Rozavlea. In 1920 it numbered 1,259 members out of a total population of 4,843 inhabitants, the census from 1930 registered 1,046 Jews in a population of 4,879, while in 1941 there were 990 Jewish inhabitants out of a total population of 5,428 persons. The number of Jewish children at the local primary school reflects these proportions. Due to the Holocaust and Aliyah, Jewish students are mentioned very rarely in the registers after the Second World War. In 1956 Rozavlea had only 23 Jewish inhabitants.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was held by the primary school of Rozavlea 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 of Rozavlea was established at the beginning of the 20th century in accordance with Hungarian legislation concerning elementary education, modified in 1907 by the secretary of education Albert Apponyi to favour the extension of Hungarian as the language in these schools. After the First World War primary education was reorganised by the law issued in 1924 which promoted Romanian as the language of instruction. Access for Jewish students was not restricted until in August 1940 a numerus clausus was introduced (first 6%, then 3% after the reinstallation of the Hungarian administration). The entire Jewish population in Maramureş was deported in 1944, so that there are almost no Jewish students present in the registers and catalogues after the Second World War. The primary school of Rozavlea functioned in the interwar framework until 1948, when the new Communist regime introduced a radical reform of the entire educational system.
- Access points: locations:
- Rozavlea
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- System of arrangement:
- The registers and catalogues are arranged chronologically, with the students’ names in alphabetical order within.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 1252, 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