The remnants of the Jewish community of Bârsana can be seen today in the Village Museum from Sighet, Romania where the house of the last Shochet and Hasid of Maramureș was rebuilt. The house, belonged to the Dirmer family. The seven Drimer siblings of Rachel and Itzhak, made a living in trade and agriculture. Most of them married and raised families, living close to their parents in Bârsana and the nearby Sighet. In the course of May 1944, most of the family members were deported from the ghettos of Sighet and Vişeu to Auschwitz, where the majority were murdered. Out of some fifty members of the Drimer family, only Pinhas Drimer, his wife Feiga, their son Emil and their nephew Rachmiel survived. Rachmiel returned to Sighet after the war and served as a Rabbi and Shochet there until his death in 1998. In 1999, Rachel and Yitzhak’s Drimer home from Bârsana was taken apart and moved to the Sighet Village Museum, where it is referred to as “Casa Drimer.”
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On the Hasidic trail of Maramureș