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Synopsis of Jews deportation from Sighet, Romania

Name of the exhibit: Synopsis of deportation of Jews from Sighet, Romania

Submitted by: Zoltan Fried

Date of origin: 2006

Origin of the object: Slide taken from a presentation about the Holocaust in 2006.

Description: My grandparents, my parents, and my uncles and aunts lived in Sighet when the events described in this slide occurred. They were subjected to the horrors described in this slide.

Voyage to Ottawa: Received from a friend.

Etti is my aunt on my mother’s side. My mother and her three sisters were deported with their parents to Auschwitz in May 1944. My aunt had a better command of the English language and decided to let my son know of their ordeal of that time.

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