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This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Cluj-Napoca is also known as Kolozsvár in Hungarian, Klausenburg in German and קלויזנבורג in Yiddish.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluj-Napoca
- http://www.romanianjewish.org/en/mosteniri_ale_culturii_iudaice_03_...
Update Nov 2021:
1000 recovered pre-Holocaust photos of Jews from Cluj / Kolosvar (identified by name) to be digitized, researched and posted.
About 4000 photos taken in Cluj by Elemér Sárdi, a local professional photographer, between 1935-1944 were recovered by a local NGO. About 1000 of those are of Jews that lived in Cluj just before the Holocaust, or nearly 10% of the town's total Jewish population. Those photos are being digitized and posted individually on Facebook on a nearly daily basis.
The uniqueness of the archive is that each photo was enclosed in an envelope with the name of the person in the photo. The NGO that is running the entire project is researching each name that appears on the envelopes against sites such as Yad Vashem etc to learn about each person's destiny. While many have perished in the Holocaust, some have survived.
It's well worth following those daily photos, I was amazed to find one of my relatives in a previously unknown photo. She's one of the survivors... [Theo]
All photos here. Photo descriptions are bilingual (Romanian & English)