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Romania root trip July 2006

Sighisoara, Romania

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Jul 26 2006, 12:12 AM

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Sighisoara, Romania

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Romania has the only town from the Middle-Ages that it still inhabited (so they say), it is called Sighisoara. It still has the walls that were used to protect the city. We saw the clock tower, which had a Star of David on its roof because the Jews helped to build it. This was from the 13th/14th century, and the clock still works.
The city was preparing for Middle-Age festival, due two days after, but we missed it.
We also saw the actual house where Darcula was born.

We talked a lot about migration and Israel and Savta told us that before the second world war, people did not think about migrating to Israel. The only reason people would go there was because old and rich people wanted to die there. Savta's great-grandparents are buried in Tzfat in Israel. She remembers that when she was young, there was one family that went to Palestine, but after a couple of years they returned because there were too many mosquitoes.

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