Alexandra Scodigor-Remenco (1897–1959) was a Romanian educator from Chişinău,

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. She founded an orphanage in 1929 that became a model institution for pre-school education in Romania. The orphanage was visited by Maria Montessori in 1938, when Alexandra Remenco was invited to the Vatican for an audience with

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Biography

Alexandra Scodigor was born in 1897, in Peresecina and studied in Orhei and

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. In the fall of 1917, Scodigor married to Dumitru Remenco and they had two children, Gheorghe Remenco (November 19, 1918, Chişinău – October 29, 1977, Chişinău) and Sergiu (b. Chişinău). In 1929, she founded the orphanage "Casa copilului", which became a model institution for pre-school education. Her efforts became known in Romania and elsewhere. In 1938 the orphanage was visited by Maria Montessori, who encouraged her ideas at a conference in Rome. That same year Alexandra Remenco was invited to the Vatican for an audience with Pope Pius XI to come. After the

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, the orphanage was closed. Remenco withdrew back to this in the near Ploiești, where she worked as a nurse. After World War II she worked as a teacher at a primary school in Chişinău. She was buried at the Central cemetery on Armenească Street, Chişinău.

Bibliography

* Donos, Alexandru. În dar oamenilor: chiţă despre jurnalistul Gheorghe Remenco// Nistru, 1979, Nr. 7, pp. 115–121. * Iurie Colesnic, Destinul tragic al unui filozof din Basarabia interbelică: despre Dumitru Remenco (1895–1940), filozof, ziarist la " Cuvânt moldovenesc", "

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", Viaţa Basarabiei, 2004, Nr. 2. pp. 210–220.

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CONTRIBUŢII PRIVIND ACTIVITATEA ORFELINATULUI „CASA COPILULUI” DIN CHIŞINĂU
Vera Stăvilă, Muzeul Naţional de Arheologie şi Istorie a Moldovei, str. 31 August, 121-A, MD-2012 Chişinău, Republica Moldova (2007) – Artikel (Moldavisch)
Contribution to the study of the activity of the Chişinău orphanage “Children’s home”

Destinul tragic al unui filozof din Basarabia interbelică : [despre Dumitru Remenco (1895–1940), filozof, ziarist la "Cuvânt moldovenesc", "Glasul Basarabiei"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Remenco, Alexandra 1890s births 1959 deaths People from Orhei District Romanian educators