Valea lui Mihai (Hungarian: Érmihályfalva), a small town in northern Bihor County near the Hungarian border, was home to an Orthodox community of more than 1,400 people in 1930. In 1940–1944 the town was under Hungarian rule, and in May 1944 its Jews were sent to the Oradea ghetto and from there to Auschwitz. The late-19th-century synagogue served as a warehouse and was sold, and former residents bought it back and restored it. In the large cemetery stand the ohels of the town's rabbis and memorial stones to Holocaust victims.
In Valea lui Mihai, Bihor, known to its Jews as Érmihályfalva, an Orthodox community lived until the 1944 deportation. The synagogue, once a warehouse, was bought back by former residents; the cemetery holds rabbis'…
The Jews of Valea lui Mihai are organised as a branch attached to the Jewish community of Oradea.
Details from the community directory of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania (FCER), checked on 5 November 2026. Contact the community before visiting to arrange access to the synagogue or cemetery and to ask about a minyan and kosher food. FCER community directory
No address on the official list
From the Federation’s cemetery list (2007). Arrange visits in advance with the community, which holds the keys.
Map of Jewish cemeteries in RomaniaAstronomical calculation for the town-centre coordinates, sea-level horizon, Romanian time: dawn 16.1°, tallit & tefillin 11.5°, nightfall 7.083°, candle lighting 18 minutes before sunset, Shabbat ends 8.5°. For orientation only; consult a rabbi on questions of halacha.
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