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Art House Pulls 19th Century Romanian Jewish Community's Burial Register From Auction

by Artsjournal2

The register of Jewish burials in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca between 1836 and 1899, is one of very few documents left after more than 18,000 Hungarian-speaking Jews were deported from the city and murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Their homes and synagogues were ransacked, leaving almost no record of their lives and existence; the presence of […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 9:24pm on February 21, 2021