Several windows of the Synagogue of Orăștie in the Transylvania region of Romania were found broken on Monday morning, according to the European Jewish Congress, which cited a local report.
Unidentified vandals threw stones and boulders at the windows, as reported by the Romanian newspaper Stirile Transilvaniei. The broken windows were discovered by two archaeologists from the local Museum of Ethnography and Folk Art and they reported the incident immediately to police.
By the end of the 19th century, approximately half of the city’s total population was Jewish, according to Yad Vashem. In 1930, more than 35,000 Jews were living in the city.
Approximately 4,000 Jews were locked into “death trains” and transported back and forth between railway stations. Around 2,650 of them died of suffocation or thirst, while others lost their sanity.