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Somkerék- Şintereag Jewish Cemetry, Şintereag, Romania, 35 burials total.
In the Jewish cemetery of Şintereag (or in Hungarian Somkerék) there were counted 35 graves with standing stones, dated 19th century and early 20th century. All the stones are engraved in Hebrew lettering only and the dates used are the Hebrew dates only and not the civil dates.
The people who worked on this project:
- Adam Gabor (a Romanian local), who photographed all the gravestones from this cemetery and also indexed a list of surviving civil registration records from this town to help, where possible, correlate the Hebrew names on the stones to the names in the civil records. In most cases, family names are not written on the grave stones, and so this had to be done using other data that might give a high probability of a match.
- David Ziants (from Ma'aleh Adumim, Israel and has no known ancestry in this part of Europe, and just came across this indexing need by chance) who made the transcriptions and translations and takes full responsibility for any human errors that might have occurred in doing this process.
- Mr. Dov Paneth and his wife (from Lakewood,NJ,USA) , a descendant of Rabbi Moshe Hillel HIRSCH Z”L (1862-1935) one of the spiritual leaders of Sintereag (called then Somkerék), who reviewed all the stone transcriptions and added corrections and remarks where needed.
- All members of the Jewish genealogy community who, through various forums, helped with the initial transcriptions and translations of some of the hard-to-read stones and set the direction so that this work can come to fruition.
Cemetery gate
Overview of cemetery
Another overview of cemetery
Remnants of stones
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