Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 23-24. (1994)
II. Istorie
522 MELINTE §ERBAN 18 „AVRAM IANCU” THE TRANSYLVANIAN REFUGEES’ CULTURAL HOUSE IN BUCHAREST (Summary) The house was founded on August 17, 1941, on the initiative of lustin Handrea (teacher), Vasile Netea (historian) and other members of intelligentsia. It had the accord of the Royal Cultural Foundation „King Michael I”. The new institution aimed at soothing the suffering of the refugees, at their spiritual strengthening, as well as at their moral and civil, cultural and patriotic education. The main activities were Sunday or holiday gatherings, when conferences were held as well as reciting poetry or readings of stories and fables, theatre, shows, monologues, Transylvanian folk games and customs, and exhibitions. All these were witnessed by thousands of refugees gathered at the Village Museum in Bucharest. The cultural home also dealt with job finding, nursing the sick, organizing professional or preparatory courses. As a solidarity home for the over 40.000 refugees, it also played the part of an important public institution of the national conscience, bearing the banner of recapturing the Transylvanian territories that had been unjustly torn of the body of the country, by the Viena Diktat.
