The Jews of Sighet Part I

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The opening of this track, in Jewish History Soundbites’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] a date which will live in information [Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the Guerrera team members slain in West Germany the Olympic Games good job out of the 24 who were killed were out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to learn in heaven I say one million Jewish children who were made to be cut losers [Music] whoever heard such beautiful words it is never too little it is never too late and it is never enough followed by his son represent live shlita the Karan satmaraba and this episode in really a mini-series which will be about the history of the Jewish community in the town of siget and it was it's a long in the making and there was the recent yard site of the satmarov this past week and it's the town of his birth and I just want to talk about its history and personalities of this town of Sega and I've always wanted to delve into the story of siget wanted to delve into the story of siget and I'm really glad that we have the opportunity to do so um it is on one hand the birthplace of the satmarov and of course the whole title bound Dynasty and it's so associated with that name it's almost synonymous the satmarov the title bounds the Christians and even earlier and and on one hand that they're associated with siget and on the other hand a person like Eli Wiesel Believe It or Not also grew up there so one of the most famous

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1. 0:02[Music] a date which will live in information [Music] both of those projects initiatives got off…
2. 3:39personalities either grew up there or lived there or served there in some capacity so it…
3. 6:47it's in between Romania and Hungary and bordering Ukraine it's in the austro-hungarian empire for a…
4. 10:22Jewish communities in the area um and in the 1941 they are again over ten thousand…
5. 13:26Hungary gets it from Romania in 1940 um and uh and then the with the Nazi…
6. 17:05vision it's their clothes it was built the building that still exists a beautiful prominent building…
7. 20:11even most of the religious uh members of of siget Jews and sing it were somewhat…
8. 23:17in the meantime he had worked on his own unique commentary to the shocks safer earlier…
9. 26:52reckoned with in siget and its environs even down to the 20th and 21st century post-war…
10. 29:59now many other Kahana kahanas resided in siget or all over marmarish wealthy powerful another descendant…

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