{"id":374,"date":"2017-08-06T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/?p=374"},"modified":"2017-08-06T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:00:41","slug":"szighet-sighetu-marmatiei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/06\/szighet-sighetu-marmatiei\/","title":{"rendered":"Szighet \/ Sighetu Marmatiei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small town right next to the Ukrainian border. During Communist rule it was home to a terrible prison right in the middle of the city. Dissidents from all over the country were brought here. It&#8217;s a forbidding building with massive iron bars across the small windows. Today it houses a memorial museum. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1615714223.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1615714223.jpg\" title=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-371\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Romanian Prison<\/figcaption><\/figure>Szighet \/&nbsp;Sighetu&nbsp;is the birthplace of Moshe Teitelbaum, the former <i>Rebbe<\/i> of the Szatm\u00e1r Chassidim and descendent of many generations of Teitelbaums who have led the Jews of the town for almost 300 years.<\/p>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-813336596.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-813336596.jpg\" title=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-372\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Teitelbaum dynasty<\/figcaption><\/figure>It is also the birthplace of Elie Wiesel who died just a year ago. His parents&#8217; house is now a museum. People here are really proud of their town&#8217;s son.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-518802450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-518802450.jpg\" title=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-373\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eli Wiesel museum, Sighetu Marmatiei<\/figcaption><\/figure>We also met remaining members of the Jewish <i>Kehille<\/i> and a very endearing man who drove by on his bicycle as we were standing in front of the only remaining shul. He turned out to be a local historian who has written and published about the Jewish community of Szighet. This, as well as the Wiesel museum deserve their own posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small town right next to the Ukrainian border. During Communist rule it was home to a terrible prison right in the middle of the city. Dissidents from all over the country were brought here. It&#8217;s a forbidding building with massive iron bars across the small windows. Today it houses a memorial museum. &nbsp; Szighet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/06\/szighet-sighetu-marmatiei\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Szighet \/ Sighetu Marmatiei<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}