Sighet, Transylvania
Hunter Buchman, Destiny Mcgilll, Martin Torres
Facts About Sighet, Transylvania
- significant Jewish population can be traced to the early 18th century when there were approximately 100 Jews living in the town.
- Ellie Wiesel and his family lived in here with 1,000 Jews.
- The sighet ghetto was extremely crowded.
- the ghetto was controlled by colonel savari
- Jews were deported from Sighet to Auschwitz from May 17th to 21st.
- in the 19th century once it became possible for Jews to own land and timber many Jews worked in the lumber industry
- after the war only several hundred of the 14,000 returned.
The ghetto
A small village after deportation in the Ghetto .
Deportation
people waiting to be deported to Auschwitz.
Sighet, transylvania
More Facts
- Deportation from the two sections of the sighet ghetto were carried out in four stages.
- the residents of the larger sections were deported to the smaller location of "oberyash" and from there to Auschwitz .
- in the ghetto Jews were forced to wear yellow stars and had curfews.
- The sighet ghetto was established on April 18th - 20th
- prime minister General Dome Sztojay cooperated with Germany and allowed the Jews to be deported.
- Ellie Wiesels mother, Sarah and his younger sister , tzipora were among those sent to the gas chamber