10/09/2026
October 9 is Romania's National Day of Holocaust Remembrance. On this day in 1941, the Antonescu regime began deporting the Jews of Bukovina and Bessarabia to Transnistria. The International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania, chaired by Elie Wiesel, found that between 280,000 and 380,000 Jews were murdered in Romanian-controlled territories. Thousands of Roma were killed as well.
In Northern Transylvania, then under Hungarian rule, the deportations came in May and June 1944. Jewish families from Șimleu Silvaniei and the surrounding villages were sent to Auschwitz. Most were murdered there.
Their synagogue still stands. Today it is the Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum, Muzeul Holocaustului, where their names are kept and their story is taught, together with our partners Asociația Memorială Hebraica Nușfalău and Primăria Șimleu Silvaniei.
Să ne amintim de ei. Remember them. יזכור
The Jewish Architectural Heritage Foundation supports the museum's education work. Please help us keep their memory alive in the place they built. A gift of any size helps. Tap Donate below.
Tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. EIN 20-0487195.
Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Institutul National pentru Studierea Holocaustului din Romania Elie Wiesel Federația Comunităților Evreiești din România Administrația Prezidențială a României
