Metadata: State primary school of Târgu Lăpuş
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 636
- Title:
- State primary school of Târgu Lăpuş
- Title (official language):
- Şcoala primară de stat Târgu Lăpuş
- Creator/accumulator:
- State primary school of Târgu Lăpuş
- Date(s):
- 1945/1949
- Extent:
- 5 registers and catalogues
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises 5 registers and catalogues of the state primary school of Târgu Lăpuş from 1945 to 1949. 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 and Hungarian, but there was a Jewish community in Târgu Lăpuş. Before the Holocaust, in 1941, it numbered 421 members out of a total population of 10,632 inhabitants. After the Second World War, the number of survivors was 132 in 1956, while in 1966 the census registered only 28 Jewish inhabitants because of Aliyah. The number of Jewish children at the local primary school reflects these proportions.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was held by the primary school of Târgu Lăpuş 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 Târgu Lăpuş was established after the Second World War in accordance with the Romanian law of primary education issued in 1924, with Romanian as the language of instruction. 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%. This was revoked in 1945 but due to the Holocaust and Aliyah there are fewer and fewer Jewish students mentioned in the registers and catalogues. The primary school of Târgu Lăpuş functioned in the interwar framework until 1948, when the new Communist regime introduced a radical reform of the entire educational system.
- Access points: locations:
- Târgu Lăpuş
- 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. 1228, 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