Dragomirești, Maramureș

Among the first Jews who settled in Dragomirești was R. Shemuel Stern of the Kosov Hasidic dynasty, in 1780. He was followed by other Hasidim from Galicia who worked in his lumber mills. By 1920, there were 756 Jews, accounting for 28% of the population. After the 1940 Second Vienna Award granted Northern Transylvania to Hungary, local Jews aged 20 to 40 were drafted into labor battalions in Ukraine. On April 15, 1944, 2000 Jews, including from nearby villages, were ghettoized. A month later, they were made to go to Vișeu de Sus rail station: males aged 12 to 60 on foot; women, children and elderly men in wagons. From Vișeu, trains took them to Auschwitz concentration camp.^[2]

Demographics

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
2002	3,132	—
2011	3,213	+2.6%
Source: Census data

At the 2011 census, 99.5% of the population were ethnic Romanians and 0.4% Roma. 94.8% were Romanian Orthodox and 4.9% Greek-Catholic.

References

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↑ (Romanian) Populația stabilă după etnie - județe, municipii, orașe, comune, National Institute of Statistics; accessed September 3, 2015
↑ Shmuel Spector, Geoffrey Wigoder (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust: A-J, p. 328. NYU Press, 2001, ISBN 978-081-4793-76-3

Maramureș County, Romania

Cities	Baia Mare (county seat) Sighetu Marmației

Towns	Baia Sprie Borșa Cavnic Dragomirești Săliștea de Sus Seini Șomcuta Mare Târgu Lăpuș Tăuții-Măgherăuș Ulmeni Vișeu de Sus

Communes	Ardusat Ariniș Asuaju de Sus Băița de sub Codru Băiuț Bârsana Băsești Bicaz Bistra Bocicoiu Mare Bogdan Vodă Boiu Mare Botiza Budești Călinești Câmpulung la Tisa Cernești Cicârlău Coaș Coltău Copalnic-Mănăștur Coroieni Cupșeni Desești Dumbrăvița Fărcașa Gârdani Giulești Groși Groșii Țibleșului Ieud Lăpuș Leordina Mireșu Mare Moisei Oarța de Jos Ocna Șugatag Oncești Petrova Poienile de sub Munte Poienile Izei Recea Remetea Chioarului Remeți Repedea Rona de Jos Rona de Sus Rozavlea Ruscova Săcălășeni Săcel Sălsig Săpânța Sarasău Satulung Șieu Șișești Strâmtura Suciu de Sus Vadu Izei Valea Chioarului Vima Mică Vișeu de Jos

Coordinates: 47°40′01″N 24°17′29″E / 47.6669°N 24.2914°E / 47.6669; 24.2914

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