A Holocaust education center will open in the childhood home of Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in the Romanian town of Sighet, in the Maramures area, according to Romania-Insider.com.
The “Holocaust Cellar” is set to open on May 18. The event will be the first in a series of events to mark 70 years since the expulsion of the last Jews of northern Transylvania to Auschwitz.
The center will form part of the Holocaust museum in Wiesel’s pre-World War II home, located in the old Jewish Ghetto of Sighet in Maramures County. It will be dedicated to the 13,000 local Holocaust victims.
The opening is sponsored by the Government of Romania, the City of Sighet, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the Romanian Jewish Federation and Limmud FSU.
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