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After 1919, the medical elite and numerous intellectuals began to show interest to matters such as: the improvement of the human stock, the topic of health and the biological future of the Romanian nation. This essay aims to present and analyze the importance of the biological improvement of the nation around the year 1935. The year itself is significant due to the fact that it coincides with the foundation of the Department of Demography, Anthropology and Eugenics of the Romanian Social Institute and also in the same year the Royal Romanian Society for Eugenics and the Study of Heredity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the Second World War and with the establishment of the communist regime, many Romanians, dissatisfied with the new regime, tried to leave the country. The fugitives most frequently chose the road or rail route, but there were also attempts to swim across the Danub or to cross the Black Sea with inflatable boats, and the bravest tried to hijack planes. Most of the fugitives paid with their lives or ended up in the dungeons of the Security and were imprisoned for decades. In the summer of 1971, seven young people from Târgu Mureș planned, in turn, to leave the country by hijacking a Tarom plane. The present paper aims to present their story from the communist Securitate archives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents comparatively the aspirations of the eugenicists to transform eugenics into a true religion, the interaction of eugenics with religion, but also the way in which various churches from Romania and Hungary perceived Galton's science and how they reacted to the eugenics movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how marriage was perceived by the Romanian and Hungarian eugenicists in the interwar period and how they attempted to use this "rite of passage" to regenerate the national body and to craft the discourse(s) about a stronger nation. The processes that eugenicist agents intended to use or used in forming the family as the nucleus of the nation, are presented in comparative perspective. My goal is to highlight the differences and especially the similarities between the two eugenic movements. Both movements tried to articulate their discourse based on the previous differences between the national groups they referred to. Even if the present research only covers some theorizations, we can argue that for both Hungarian and Romanian elites these ideas were not just simple theoretical rhetoric speculations. To their mind, they were meant to provide the framework for a possible future experiment concerning their civilization and culture regeneration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]