Dragomirești, Maramureș Explained

Type:town
County:Maramureș
Dragomirești
Leader Name:Vasile Țiplea[1]
Leader Party:CMM
Leader Term:2020 - 2024
Coordinates:47.6669°N 24.2914°W
Elevation:228
Area Total:101.09
Population Total:auto
Postal Code:437140
Area Code:(+40) 02 62

Dragomirești (Hungarian: Dragomérfalva or Dragomérfalu; Yiddish: דראגאמירעשט|Dragomiresht; German: Dragomir ) is a town in Maramureș County, Maramureș, Romania. It was declared a town in 2004.

Geography

The town lies at the foot of the Țibleș Mountains, on the banks of the Iza River and its tributary, the Baicu. It is located in the southeastern part of the county, on the border with Bistrița-Năsăud County, about east of the county seat, Baia Mare.

History

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

At the 2011 census, 99.5% of the population were ethnic Romanians and 0.4% Roma.[3] 94.8% were Romanian Orthodox and 4.9% Greek-Catholic.

Natives

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Results of the 2020 local elections . Central Electoral Bureau . 14 June 2021 . dmy-all.
  2. Shmuel Spector, Geoffrey Wigoder (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust: A-J, p. 328. NYU Press, 2001,
  3. Populația stabilă după etnie - județe, municipii, orașe, comune, National Institute of Statistics; accessed September 3, 2015