# Borșa <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Borșa (Romanian), Borsa (Hungarian)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Maramureș County, Romania</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>47.6556 24.6628</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>to 1918</td><td>Borsa</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (Máramaros County)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918/1920–1940</td><td>Borșa</td><td>Romania</td></tr> <tr><td>1940–1944</td><td>Borsa</td><td>Hungary (Second Vienna Award)</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–present</td><td>Borșa</td><td>Romania (Maramureș County)</td></tr> </table> ## Overview The first Jews arrived in Borșa from Galicia around the mid-18th century; a minyan existed by 1760 and roughly 250 Jews lived there by 1800. The community was strongly Hasidic, with the majority adhering to the Kosów dynasty. The first synagogue was built around 1800 and a second around 1840, and in the interwar period the town had some 12 synagogues and prayer houses, three ritual baths, and three cemeteries. The Jewish population reached 1,432 in 1890, 2,991 in 1920, and 2,409 in 1941 (about 20% of the town). After Hungarian annexation, nearly 2,500 Borșa Jews were deported in 1944 via the Vișeu de Sus ghetto and mostly killed in extermination camps. About 395 survivors attempted to reorganize the community but nearly all emigrated after 1950. <small>Sources: https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/borsa/borsa.html, https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/borsa</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Sarah Sprintza Simonovitz (b.1905)]] | Born 01/01/1905 | | [[Yehudah Simonovitz (b.1906)]] | Born 04/20/1906 | | [[Sosha Simonovitz (b.1908)]] | Born 01/22/1908 | | [[Esther Simonovitz (b.1909)]] | Born 12/12/1909 | | [[Shalom Simonovitz (b.1911)]] | Born 05/19/1911 | | [[David Tzvi Simonovitz (b.1913)]] | Born 04/17/1913 | | [[Shmuel Hertz Simonovitz (b.1914)]] | Born 01/10/1914 | | [[Moshe Eliyahu Simonovitz (b.1923)]] | Born 01/10/1923 |