Cimitirul Săracilor

The Cemetery of the Poor was originally built in the early 20th century as the last resting place for the area's poor but in the 1950s, it was used by Sighet Prison to buried their political prisoners of the Communist regime. The graves are all unmarked and often a common mass grave for many. Some inmates may have actually been buried at the old prison site in unmarked graves. These inmates may have died of a disease process or executed. The cemetery is an open meadow within a low hedge of fir trees in the shape of Romania. There is a huge white limestone Byzantine-style cross with an altar and a bell tower. Within the cemetery, there is a memorial area of over forty slate slabs, which have been inscribed with the names of deported Romanians, who died in the Soviet gulags and prisons. The cemetery is located 2.5 miles outside the city of Sighet. The Prison was built in 1897 to be used as a common jail, but