The Romanian Archives of Bucharest as presented in a study published during the years of the Second World War Cover Image

Les Archives Roumaines de Bucarest tel qu’elles sont présentées dans une étude publiée pendant les années de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale
The Romanian Archives of Bucharest as presented in a study published during the years of the Second World War

Author(s): Mădălina Diana Rușanu-Radu
Subject(s): History, Archiving
Published by: Arhivele Nationale ale Romaniei
Keywords: Second World War; Bucharest School Region; School Archives

Summary/Abstract: Since 1943, in the interval of nine issues between July 1943 and April 1944, the Official Bulletin of the Ministry of National Culture and Cults, “Școala Românească [Romanian School]” published the study entitled Şcolile secundare din Regiunea Bucureşti [The Secondary Schools in Bucharest Region]”, written by the General Inspector Remus Ilie, relying upon data in the questionnaires sent to the schools during 1942-1943 school year. The most important schools – according to the author – from the counties that at that moment composed the Bucharest School Region are presented one by one. It is about the counties of Argeş, Braşov, Buzău, Constanţa, Dâmboviţa. The respects taken into account when presenting the secondary schools refer to the school’s history and building, the inventory of the goods, the budget, the archives, the directors, the pupils. This study presents and examines the summary of the heading entitled “Arhiva [The Archive]”, in which one could find important information for each school, related to: the extreme dates of the documents, the years when the archives is missing, as long as the causes for this absence, such as: the delivery of the documents to other institutions, but especially their loss or damage by the occupation armies during the First World War, a cause that made that even the entire archive since the setting up of a school to be lost. Meanwhile, in order to understand the history of the school archives, we regard as also significant the information according to which the schools taken into account held the archives of other educational institutions that had been suppressed in time or evacuated in 1940, as it is the case for the schools in Cadrilater, Constanța county.

  • Issue Year: LXXXIX/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 22-30
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: French