Dragomiresti

Dragomiresti is a city in Maramures County, Romania. It became d a city in 2004. Among the first Jews who settled in Dragomiresti become R. Shemuel Stern of the Kosov Hasidic dynasty, in 1780. He become observed by other Hasidim from Galicia who worked in his lumber turbines. By 1920, there were 756 Jews, accounting for 28 percent of the populace. After the 1940 Second Vienna Award granted Northern Transylvania to Hungary, local Jews elderly 20 to 40 have been drafted into exertions battalions in Ukraine.

On April 15, 1944, 2000 Jews, together with from close by villages, had been ghettoized. A month later, they were made to go to Vișeu de Sus rail station: adult males aged 12 to 60 walking; girls, kids and aged men in wagons. From Vișeu, trains took them to Auschwitz concentration camp. At the 2011 census, 99.Five percent of the populace were ethnic Romanians and zero.4 percent Roma. Ninety four.Eight percent were Romanian Orthodox and four.9 percent Greek-Catholic.