ROMÂNI BUCOVINENI REFUGIAȚI ÎN ROMÂNIA ÎN TIMPUL PRIMULUI RĂZBOI MONDIAL ÎN DOCUMENTE AUSTRIECE
Bukovinian Refugees in Romania during the First World War in Austrian Documents

Summary/Abstract: The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 had profound implications for Bukovina, one of the provinces of the Habsburg Empire. During the first international conflagration, when the national movement was booming, the Bukovinian Romanians continued to assert their identity and fought for their ideal: the union of Bukovina with the Kingdom of Romania. In this context, many Bukovinian Romanians (teachers, bankers and postal workers, doctors, engineers, priests, judges, lawyers, notaries, sellers, carpenters, students and secondary school pupils) fled to Romania with the hope of a better living. There they disputed the Habsburg monarchy's governance policy, they publicized its negative repercussions on the Romanians and expressed their views on the union. As a result, the authorities in Bukovina decided to terminate the working relationship for refugees in Romania, to suspend remunerations and pensions, and even to prosecute the refugees for high treason.

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