Maramures County in northern Transylvania is opening its first Holocaust education center, The Holocaust Cellar, on Sunday, May 18. The town is the childhood home in Romania of Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. The site of the new center is in the old Jewish ghetto of Sighet in Maramures County and will be dedicated to the 13,000 local Holocaust victims.
New Holocaust center to open in Eli Wiesel’s hometown
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