Târgu Mureş (Marosvásárhely) Students and Teachers Deported to Auschwitz 1944

Introduction by Professor John Hoenig

Background

On the wall of the Jewish Community Center of Târgu Mureş (Hungarian name – Marosvásárhely), in Mureş County, in the Transylvania region of Romania, is a large plaque which says in Romanian:

"În pomenirea profesorilor, invăţătorilor şi a elevilor deportati la Auschwitz şi suferiţi martiriu în anul 1944. Le păstrăm amintirea lor cu pietate."

The English translation is:

"In remembrance of the professors, primary school teachers, and students who were deported to Auschwitz and suffered in 1944. We keep their memory alive with pity."

The plaque lists 340 students and 9 professors/teachers, almost all of whom perished. The names on the plaque are mostly Hungarian. The names are organized by class. Ages of the students are not given but approximate ages are as follows:

• Class I Primary Age 7
• Class II Primary Age 8
• Class III Primary Age 9
• Class IV Primary Age 10
• Class I Middle school Age 11
• Class II Middle school Age 12
• Class III Middle school Age 13
• Class IV Middle school Age 14

Additional information about the school was provided by Andrei Grunfeld in 2012 (see https://issuu.com/buksi/docs/jewish_school). He provides the names of 26 additional students (not listed in the memorial plaque) who survived and provides photos of most of the survivors. He also identifies one student on the plaque that survived an another that may have survived. The names of the survivors have been combined with the names from the plaque in the JewishGen database.

Database

This database includes 366 students and 10 teachers from Târgu Mureş (Marosvásárhely) Students and Teachers Deported to Auschwitz 1944.

The fields for this database are as follows:

• Student's Surname
• Student's Given Name
• Class
• Instructor(s) Surname(s)
• Instructor(s) Given Name(s)
• Instructor's Fate
• Comments

Acknowledgements

The information contained in this database was indexed from the memorial plaque and information from Andrei Grunfeld described in the Background section above. Dr. John Hoenig compiled the list. Information about survivors and possible student ages was provided by Dr. Anca Filipovici.

Finally, we thank Mike Kalt, HTML Volunteer Coordinator, for placing this description online, and Nolan Altman, Director of Special Projects and Coordinator of the Holocuast Database, for his continued devotion and dedication to JewishGen's important work.

Nolan Altman,
June, 2021

Search the Database

The Târgu Mureş (Marosvásárhely) Students and Teachers Deported to Auschwitz 1944 can be searched via the JewishGen Holocaust Collection, or the JewishGen Romania Collection