Romania
No, Sighet is not a country. It is a town in Romania.
Sighet prison was created in 1897.
Sighet is located in Maramureș county, in the northern part of Romania, near the border with Ukraine.
Sighet, Romania
Sighet, Translyvania ...which is in Romania.
The distance between Sighet and Buchenwald is 1 267 km (788 miles).
Elie Wiesel and his family originally lived in Sighet!
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.
southern part of Romania
Sighet, Romania
Sighet
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.