Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania

... Tisa has a long and complicated story: the bridge between Sighet and Slatina. Sighet is a small town in the north of Romania, close to the Romanian-Ukrainian border, and Slatina the neighbouring town on the Ukrainian bank of the Tisa. This bridge has ...

... town. We walk the length of the place, finding only a small convenience store. In another hour and a half, our train to Sighetu Marmatiei pulls in and carries us further north. It is long past dark when Florin, Monika's Maramures contact meets us at ...

... home. It really is something everyone should read. From Wikipedia: Wiesel was born in Sighet (now Sighetu Marmaţiei), Maramureş, Kingdom of Romania, to Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel. Shlomo was an Orthodox Jew of Hungarian descent, and a shopkeeper ...

... understood, she told us about her former home in the Ukraine and her children who live in Austria. She now lives in Sibiu, Romania (a town we considered visiting before deciding to come to Sighet), and offered to put us up if we come by. She handed Hannah ...