No, Sighet is not a country. It is a town in Romania.
Sighet prison was created in 1897.
To a ghetto within Sighet.
Sighet is located in MaramureΘ county, in the northern part of Romania, near the border with Ukraine.
Sighet, Translyvania ...which is in Romania.
Sighet, Romania
The distance between Sighet and Buchenwald is 1 267 km (788 miles).
Eliezer and his family come from the town of Sighet in Transylvania, which was a part of Hungary at the time of their deportation to Auschwitz during World War II.
Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, then in Romania. However, from 1940-1944 that part of Transylvania was a part of Hungary.
Moishe was deported from Sighet because he was a foreign Jew and was seen as a threat by the Hungarian police during World War II. He was taken away with other foreigners and left to die in the forest, but managed to escape and return to warn the Jews of Sighet about the impending danger.
southern part of Romania
Sighet