The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of the Jews of Cluj
mai 1944·Cluj
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Capital of Northern Transylvania, Cluj saw its Jews gathered in a brickworks on the outskirts, where interrogations sought hidden goods, before convoys to the death camp.
Kolozsvár (Cluj), the capital of Transylvania, was home to the province's largest Jewish community, divided between Orthodox and Neolog congregations, with its great synagogues, hospital, schools, and associations. Following the German occupation of Hungary, the Jews of the city and surrounding districts were confined in a brickyard on the outskirts, where they lived beneath open sheds. The convoys departed in the spring toward the extermination center in Upper Silesia. The community of Kolozsvár, the largest in Transylvania, was annihilated.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Roumanie
Randolph L. Braham, The Politics of Genocide ; Pinkas Hakehillot Hungaria.