The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of the Jews of Sighet
mai 1944·Sighet
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County seat of Maramureș, Sighet sees its Hasidic community confined to two closed quarters of the center, then taken in a few weeks by convoys to the extermination camp, the villages of the Tisza valley being emptied at the same time.
Sighet, on the Tisza in Maramureș, was one of the largest Hassidic communities in Carpathian Europe, with its rabbinical courts, yeshivot, and printing houses; Jews formed a considerable share of the city's population. Following the German occupation of Hungary, the authorities established a ghetto there where Jews from the villages of the valley were also gathered. The convoys left Sighet in the spring, one after another, toward the extermination center in Upper Silesia. In a matter of weeks, the city lost the community that had made it what it was.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Roumanie
Randolph L. Braham, The Politics of Genocide ; Pinkas Hakehillot Hungaria.