Survivors Returning to Sighet and Maramures

2,133 Records

Holocaust · Survivors · Transylvania · Maramures · Romania · Hungary

Background

There are two record books in this set: Book I, Survivors Returning to Sighet, Maramures, Romania, and Book II, Survivors Returning to Other Towns in Maramures, Romania. These books have been kept in the Jewish Community Center in Sighet. They are not in the Romanian National Archives as far as is known, and the identity of the compilers is uncertain, though the books were also used to track monetary and goods disbursements.

There are a grand total of 7,281 records: 2,133 for those returning to Sighet, and 5,148 for those returning to various towns in Maramures.

Fields Recorded
Book, Page, Row — Location in the source register
Surname
Given Name
Town of Residence — With street address where available (primarily Sighet)
Occupation — Translated from Romanian
Birthplace
Date of Birth
Mother’s Surname
Mother’s Given Name
Place of Deportation — Where the person was deported from
Place of Internment — Where the person was interned
Record Number — In many cases appears to be the camp ID number
Acknowledgements

We thank Daniel Horowitz, who located the records, arranged permission from the Jewish Community Center in Sighet to photograph the pages, made the images, and stitched them together. Thanks also to Peninah Zilberman, who alerted Daniel Horowitz to the records’ existence.

JewishGen volunteer indexers: Ronald Wagmann, Ida Gold, Suzanne Geroe, and Sandy Malek (Sighet book); Sandy Malek (Maramures book).

Special thanks to Nolan Altman, Director of Special Projects and Coordinator of the Holocaust Database, for his continued devotion to JewishGen’s work.

January 2022

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