Sighetu Marmației (Romanian pronunciation: [ˌsiɡetu marˈmat͡si.ej], also spelled Sighetul Marmației; German: Marmaroschsiget or Siget; Hungarian: Máramarossziget, Hungarian …

Sighet is the birthplace of noted Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel (founding chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize). A ghetto was …

From May 17-21, 1944, the entire Jewish population of Sighet was deported to Auschwitz. Of the nearly 14,000 Jews deported from Sighet in May 1944, it is estimated that only several …

Sighet, attracted Jews as early as the 18th century coming from Galicia; most found their livelihood from the timber and wood industry, that Sighet is famous for. Most of the Jewish …

Sighet, the county's seat, soon become the religious and cultural center for all the Jews in Maramures. The Jews of Maramures was characterized by a combination of three factors: …

Sighet (known today as Sighetu Marmatiei), is a town in Transylvania, and a part of Romania following World War I. Sighet was part of Hungary from 1940-1944. It is well known as the …

SIGHET (Hung. Máramarossziget), town in Crisana-Maramures, N.W. Romania, between 1940 and 1944, part of Hungary. Jews had already settled there by the 17 th century and were …

Sighet’s Jews were ordered to enter a ghetto in April and early May of 1944, with its population soon reaching almost 13,000 when rural Jews were added. The ghetto was liquidated when …

At the northern border of Transylvania lies Sighet Marmatiei, unquestionably the region’s most original and charming little city, where Romanian, Hungarian, Roma and Ruthenian …

Prewar studio portrait in Sighet of Jewish siblings Suri and Ari Deutsch, both of whom died in the Holocaust. This photograph comes from the album of their cousin, Rosalia Dratler Roiter. …