Name of synagogue: BETH SOLOMON Synagogue

Street address: 3 WASSERMAN (formerly UNIRII) ST.

City and postcode: DOROHOI

Website of Jewish community or synagogue (if they have one) -

Website of Federation of Jewish Communities from Romania: www.jewishfed.ro

Contacts

Contact at Jewish community (president) IOJI SACAGIU

Street address of Jewish community: 95 SPIRU HARET ST.

Telephone number: 0231.611.797

Street address of Jewish cemetery:

(1) 55 1 Decembrie St.

(2) Victoriei St.

Condition of the cemetery? – Good

Synagogue facts

When was it built - cca 1790

Year(s) when it was remodeled or expanded - unknown to us

Name of architect(s) - unknown to us

Other synagogues that this architect built – N/A

Is it known who designed the brass candelabras etc? – N/A

Is it known who was the artist who painted on the walls? – N/A

How would you describe the condition? Aging, in need of some repairs

Jewish statistics

How many Jews lived in this city before the Holocaust? In 1930, there were 5,820 Jews from a total population of 15,866.

What was its peak year of Jewish population? 18,821 (in 1899, in the entire Dorohoi district)

How many synagogues were in the city then? The town had 21 other synagogues before World War II.

How many now? 1

Are the others used as synagogues? – N/A

If not, what are they used for? – N/A

If possible, give their addresses. – N/A

Holocaust related

What was the fate of the Jews of this city during the Holocaust?

On 1 July 1940, a unit of the Romanian army arrived in Dorohoi and perpetrated a pogrom. In the Jewish cemetery and in the town, soldiers shot dozens of Jewish soldiers and Jewish inhabitants, including women and children. Approximately 200 people were killed, of whom 44 were identified; the following year, after the Nazi war against the USSR had begun, it was followed by the forced expulsion of approximately 2,000 Jews from Darabani, Mihăileni, Rădăuți, Săveni and from other villages of Dorohoi County. They were gathered in Dorohoi, then deported to Transnistria in November 1941. 3,000 Jews from Dorohoi itself were also deported: many of them died on the way before arriving in Ataki, near the Dniester. The Jewish population totaled 5,396 (34.6% of the general population) in 1941; 2,315 in 1942.

How many were murdered? Half of the Jewish population of the city.

How many were living in the city from 1945 – 1948? The Jewish population totaled just 2,723 in 1956 (mostly Holocaust survivors from different cities).  

How many emigrated? - The vast majority.

How many live there today? There were 49 in 2000. Still fewer today (2016).

What are the social services for Jews in the city, if any? N/A

Sources:

Congresul Mondial Evreesc. Secțiunea din România, Populația Evreească in cifre. Memento statistic (Bucharest, 1945): 26, 45

FCER, Memoria cimitirelor evreiești (Bucharest, 2007): 42

Arh. Aristide Streja, Arh. Lucian Schwartz, Sinagogi din Romania (Bucharest,1996): 194

http://lacasedecult.cimec.ro/RO/Documente/asp/detaliu.asp?k=32780-1

http://www.jewish-romania.ro/monumente.php

www.jewishfed.ro

http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Dorohoi

The Romanian Synagogue Documentation Project

Underwritten by the David Berg Foundation

Grant recipient: Centropa, Vienna, Edward Serotta, Director,

Organizing Partner: The Center for Hebrew Studies and the Goldstein Goren

Center for Israel Studies, University of Bucharest, Felicia Waldman, Coordinator

Researcher: Anca Tudorancea, Center for the Study of the History of Romanian Jews

Photography: Daniel Gruenfeld, Oliver Beck Assistant

Web coordinator: Dragos Parasca