Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum

The Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum is located in Simleu Silvaniei, Romania and changed into opened September 11, 2005. The museum is operated and maintained by using the Jewish Architectural Heritage Foundation of New York and Asociata Memoralia Hebraica Nusfalau - a Romanian NGO, with the support of the Claims Conference, Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania, amongst different philanthropic and pedagogical partners.

The old synagogue of simleu Silvaniei changed into erected in 1876. During the peak of its use, the synagogue was used for worship and non secular ceremonies by Jewish households from the metropolis of Simleu Silvaniei as well as surrounding villages which includes Giurtelecu Simleului and Nusfalau. In May to June 1944, while the city turned into a part of Hungary resulting from the territorial settlement called the Second Vienna Award, the region's Jewish populace turned into pressured out in their houses into the brutal Cehei ghetto and from there packed into cattle automobiles and transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Over 160,000 Jews from the place perished.