Ghettos and Collection Camps in Northern Transylvania

An Attempt to Reappraise the Use of Certain Terms

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0224/art_agid01

Keywords:

Northern Transylvania, ghettoizations, ghettos, collection camps, terminology

Abstract

The goal of this study is to classify the Hungarian-controlled ghettos and collection camps of Northern Transylvania according to their topographical and infrastructural characteristics. It is an effort to determine the extent to which their features correspond to Hungarian and international typologies, and the degree to which they differed from camps elsewhere. These themes are by no means unfamiliar to Hungarian scholars, several of whom have in recent decades studied Holocaust-era ghettos and the living conditions that prevailed there. None of their analyses, however, have addressed the situation in Northern Transylvania, and thus my objective in this article is to fill in the resulting gap

Author Biography

  • Attila Gidó

    Attila Gidó received a PhD degree in history from the Babeş-Bolyai University of ClujNapoca (Romania) in 2011. He is historian and researcher, head of department at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (Cluj-Napoca). He is also lecturer at the Babeş-Bolyai University and director of the archival collections of the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the same university. Main research areas: the history of Transylvanian Jews in the 20th century and the fate of the Roma in Transylvania after the First World War. Gidó is the author and editor of several volumes and studies in Hungarian, Romanian, and English languages. His latest volume appeared in Romanian language in 2020 and deals with the fate of Jewish survivors of the Nazi camps (20.000 names. Survivors of the Holocaust in Northern Transylvania. Editura ISPMN, Cluj-Napoca). 

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Published

2024-12-04

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2024): S:I.M.O.N. – SHOAH: INTERVENTION. METHODS. DOCUMENTATION.

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“Ghettos and Collection Camps in Northern Transylvania: An Attempt to Reappraise the Use of Certain Terms”. 2024. S: I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation. 11 (2): 79-93. https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0224/art_agid01.