The Elie Wiesel Memorial House - The Museum of the Jewish Culture in Maramures

Romania (#07): Sighetu Marmatiei

Sighetu Marmatiei ... inhabited since the Hallstatt period, the urban area was situated on an important route that followed the Tisza Valley. The first mention of a settlement dates back to the 11th century, and the city as such was first mentioned in 1326. In 1352, it was a free royal town and the capital of Máramaros comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary. From 1556, the settlement was a residence of Transylvanian Princes; from 1570 to 1733, the town and the county were part of the Principality of Transylvania. In 1733, King Charles III returned it and Máramaros County to his Hungarian domain. Sighetu Marmatiei was one of the Romanian, Rusyn, and Jewish cultural and political centers in the Kingdom of Hungary.

It became part of the Kingdom of Romania at the end of World War I, and was again under Hungarian administration during World War II as a result of the Second Vienna Award. The latter lasted until 1944 and in these years more than 20,000 Jews from Sighet would be sent to Auschwitz (including the Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, born in Sighet) and other Nazi extermination camps. Nowadays there are only about 100 Jews living in Sighetu Marmatiei. The Treaty of Paris at the end of World War II voided the Vienna Awards, and Sighetu Marmatiei returned to Romania.

In the 1950s and 1960s, after the establishment of the Romanian communist regime, the Securitate ran the Sighet prison as a place for political repression of public figures that had been declared class enemies. The former prison is now a museum, and a Memorial for the Victims of Communism.

ELIE WIESEL în SIGHET (CC English subtitles)

Relatare despre vizitele lui Elie Wiesel (1928 - 2016) la Sighet, reflectate de emisiunea Shalom, TVR Cluj. Asistent imagine Ioan Bentea, imagine József Essig, Octavian Dohotaru (1948 - 2012) editor imagine József Essig, Andrea Costângioară, reporter şi realizator Andrea Ghiţă, arhivă anii 1995, 2002.
English translation Mike Klein

COMEMORARE ELIE WIESEL - SIGHET 2017 - COMMEMORATING ELIE WIESEL

Subtitrat - Subtitled push CC!!!
Reportaj realizat în 10-11 septembrie 2017, la evenimentul memorial Elie Wiesel, difuzat la TVR3.
Asistent imagine Vasile Mocan, imagine Zsigmond Erdős, editor imagine Dora Camelia Precup, realizator Andrea Ghiţă.
Film avout September Elie Wiesel memorial event, Sighet 10-11th of September 2017, broadcast on TVR3.
English translation Michael Sipos, Romanian translation Andrea Ghiţă
Assistant Vasile Mocan, picture Zsigmond Erdős, video editor Dora Camelia Precup, producer Andrea Ghiţă.