Dragomirești, Maramureș

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Dragomirești
Town
Coat of arms of Dragomirești
Coat of arms
Location in Maramureș County
Location in Maramureș County
Dragomirești is located in Romania
Dragomirești
Dragomirești
Location in Romania
Coordinates: 47°40′01″N 24°17′29″E / 47.6669°N 24.2914°E / 47.6669; 24.2914Coordinates: 47°40′01″N 24°17′29″E / 47.6669°N 24.2914°E / 47.6669; 24.2914
CountryRomania
CountyMaramureș
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2024) Vasile Țiplea[1] (CMM)
Population
 (2011)[2]
3,213
Time zoneEET/EEST (UTC+2/+3)
Vehicle reg.MM
Websitewww.dragomiresti-maramures.ro

Dragomirești (Hungarian: Dragomérfalva; Yiddish: דראגאמירעשט‎) is a town in Maramureș County, Maramureș, Romania. It was declared a town in 2004.

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.[3]

Demographics[]

Historical population
YearPop.±%
2002 3,132—    
2011 3,213+2.6%
Source: Census data

At the 2011 census, 99.5% of the population were ethnic Romanians and 0.4% Roma.[4] 94.8% were Romanian Orthodox and 4.9% Greek-Catholic.

References[]

  1. ^ "Results of the 2020 local elections". Central Electoral Bureau. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Populaţia stabilă pe judeţe, municipii, oraşe şi localităti componenete la RPL_2011" (in Romanian). National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  3. ^ Shmuel Spector, Geoffrey Wigoder (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust: A-J, p. 328. NYU Press, 2001, ISBN 978-081-4793-76-3
  4. ^ (in Romanian) Populația stabilă după etnie - județe, municipii, orașe, comune, National Institute of Statistics; accessed September 3, 2015


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