ביסטריץ — בית החיים

Bistritz — the Jewish cemetery

Bistrița (Bistritz) · ביסטריץ

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Jewish cemetery, Strada Ghinzii 48, Bistrița, Bistrița-Năsăud County, Transylvania, Romania

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1.The address is Ghinzii 48. It is fenced, the gate locks, and entry is with permission rather than open — so it is arranged in advance, not walked into.
2.An Orthodox ground of the eighteen-hundreds, three hundred metres by a hundred, with thousands of stones still visible on it. There is no landmark or marker on the road to tell you what it is.
3.REB MEIR SPITZ IS NOT BURIED HERE, and people look for him. He was rov of Bistritz from 1912 until 1944, when the Jews of the town were put into the ghetto in May and deported to Auschwitz on the second and sixth of June. He was murdered there and has no kever.

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Cluj-Napoca (CLJ)Cluj-Napoca International· 73 km · 45 mi straight-line· regional
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Sibiu (SBZ)Sibiu International· 153 km · 95 mi straight-line· regional
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Debrecen (DEB)Debrecen International· 221 km · 137 mi straight-line· regional
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