Baia Mare, Romania

A monument to the Jews of Nagybanya, Nagysomkut,
Felsobanya, Kapolnok Monostor and vicinity
(Baia Mare, Romania)

47°40' / 23°35'

Translation of
Gal-'ed le-yahadut Nagy Banya, Nagysomkut, Felsobanya,
Kapolnok Monostor veha-sevivah

Editor: Ichak Joszef Kohen

Published in Tel Aviv 1996

Acknowledgments

This is a translation of: Gal-'ed le-yahadut Nagy Banya, Nagysomkut, Felsobanya, Kapolnok Monostor veha-sevivah
(A monument to the Jews of Nagybanya, Nagysomkut, Felsobanya, Kapolnok Monostor and vicinity),
Editor: Ichak Joszef Kohen, Organization of Former Inhabitants of Baia-Mare (Nagybanya) in Israel,
Published: Tel Aviv 1996 (H, Hu, E 591 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Baia Mare

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

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From the Editor	R'Yitzhak Yosef Cohen	7
Foreword	Zvi Miron (Moscowitz)	9
The town Nagy Bánya (Baia Mare)		11
The Nagy Bánya community		17
The Jewish life until the end of the 19th century		23
The community and its institutions from the beginning of the 20th century until the Holocaust		31
Eulogy for the rabbi of Nagy Bánya		42
Zionist activity		45
The economic life		49
The community of Nagy Somkút		55
The community of Felsõ Bánya		63
The community of Kápolnok Monostor		65
The villages in the neighborhood		68
The Holocaust		71
Labor groups		75
Nagy Bánya, center of mobilization		76
Colonel Imre Ravitzki		78
The ghetto and the deportation		83
Nagy Bánya without Jews		89
Documents from the Eichman trial		93
Personal memories from the Holocaust		105
After the Holocaust		165
Activity of the Organization in Israel		167
Yad Vashem		171
Preface about the activities of The Greater Nagy-Banya Survivor's Organization		255-261
The Memorial Tombstones (Kápolnok Monostor, Felsõ Bánya, Nagy Somkút, Nagy Bánya)		279-415

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