“Recovering the Wounds of War”: Transylvanian Soldiers and their Families during and After the First World War
“Recovering the Wounds of War”: Transylvanian Soldiers and their Families during and After the First World War

Summary/Abstract: More than a century after the end of the First World War, a series of aspects related to the horrors of the conflict are still unknown, a situation that is felt even more acutely in the states that were part of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy. As far as Transylvania is concerned, documents kept in archives help provide missing information and describe the sense of loss and the tragic impact of the First World War. The Invalids, Orphans and War Widows (ioww) archival collection of Bistriþa has been the starting point for compiling the first database on these social categories created by the war in Transylvania. The preliminary results of the information analyzed from the table relating to the widows highlighted the vast numbers of soldiers conscripted in the early stages of the war, their participation in the military operations in Galicia, Russia and on the Western Front, as well as their tragic destiny (disappearance or death). The data analyzed have also shown that a large number of women and young children were left behind, and shed light on the life decisions made by women (remarriages) following the disappearance/death of their husbands.

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