# Oradea <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">גרױסװאַרדײן</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Oradea (Romanian), Nagyvárad (Hungarian), Großwardein (German)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Bihor County, Romania</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>47.0667 21.9333</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>Nagyvárad</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (Bihar County)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918/1920–1940</td><td>Oradea</td><td>Romania</td></tr> <tr><td>1940–1944</td><td>Nagyvárad</td><td>Hungary (Second Vienna Award)</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–present</td><td>Oradea</td><td>Romania (Bihor County)</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Jewish presence in the region is documented from 1489, with the organized community noted by 1722 and a Chevra Kadisha by 1733; by 1731 about 400 Jews lived there, largely from Bohemia, Moravia, and Poland. Oradea's Jews adopted Hungarian language and culture early, and the community split into Orthodox and Neolog congregations in 1870. By 1944 the city had about 90,000 residents, roughly 30,000 of them Jewish — about one third of the population. After the German occupation, two ghettos were established (the largest in Hungary outside Budapest). About 35,000 Jews from Oradea and its surroundings were deported to Auschwitz in 10 transports in 1944, where most perished; roughly 8,000 Jews lived there in 1947. <small>Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradea_ghetto, https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/1416, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradea</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Berta Berger (b.1897)]] | Died 07/22/1899 | | [[Karolina Berger (b.1899)]] | Born 10/28/1899 | | [[Salamon Sándor (b.1902)]] | Born 06/20/1902 | | [[Jónás Berger (b.1904)]] | Born 04/17/1904 | | [[Lajos Reiter (b.1872)]] | Died 01/07/1905 | | [[Eszter Berger (b.1906)]] | Born 07/27/1906 |