The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of the Jews of Satu Mare
mai 1944·Satu Mare
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
City in Northern Transylvania, seat of a great Hasidic court, Satu Mare sees its community and those of neighboring towns penned into a closed quarter then into a defunct factory, before being taken by convoys to the death camp.
Szatmárnémeti (Satu Mare), on the Someș, was home to a substantial community and a Hassidic center whose rabbinical court cast its influence across the entire region and beyond. Its schools, printing houses, and charitable institutions made it a leading center of Jewish life. Following the German occupation of Hungary, the gendarmerie confined the Jews of the city and surrounding villages in a ghetto established in a peripheral neighborhood. The convoys departed in the spring toward the extermination center in Upper Silesia; the community vanished.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Roumanie
Randolph L. Braham, The Politics of Genocide ; Pinkas Hakehillot Hungaria.