Júlia Rosenberger, nicknamed Juliska, was born in Gyalu (today Gilău) in 1908, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her story inspired one of the audio guides at Muzeon.

Andor Lusztig, also called Bandi, the second child of Moritz and Gizella Lusztig, was born in 1908. Bandi married Júlia Rosenberger in 1933, and moved to Cluj for a better living, where their two children, Tibor and Noémi, were born in 1936 and 1938.

Moritz Lusztig was born in 1877. Moritz married Gizella Blum in 1901, at the age of 24, and between 1903 and 1912 they had five children: Ákos, Sándor, who died at the age of one, Andor, Viktória, and Pál.

For the past two months, Flavia Craioveanu, co-founder and director of Muzeon has participated in the first stage of the DOORS incubation programme, together with professionals from other 39 European institutions.

Today is the 134th anniversary of the modernist Ukrainian-Jewish sculptor Chana Orloff. Born in 1888 in Starokonstantinov, a small town in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine)

Izsák and Sára Lusztig lived in Transylvania, then part of Hungary, in the first half of the 19th century. In that period, Jewish people were limited by the authorities to trades such as commerce, butchery, or the production of alcoholic beverages.

Muzeon is participating in the DOORS Incubation Programme. Ars Electronica, Museum Booster, and Ecsite, European network science centres & museums founded DOORS – Digital Incubator for Museums. The initiative helps smaller European museums who wish to take a step ahead in the digitised world.

Chernivtsi is a city in Bukowina, situated in the southwestern region of Ukraine, where the existence of a Jewish community was first documented in 1408.

Margareta Sterian (née Weinberg) was a significant Romanian artist, stage designer, poet, and translator. She was born into a wealthy Jewish family from Buzău, on March 16, 1897. Margareta’s father remarried after her mother died, and she was raised by her maternal grandparents, who owned an embroidery shop. She then went to an Anglican primary school and an Evangelical high school in Bucharest. Simultaneously, she studied painting with Richard Canisius and Gore Mircescu.

Lia Koenig is now known as the “First Lady of Israeli Theatre” for her constant presence on the stage of Tel Aviv’s Habimah Theatre. But, before performing in Israel, in the 1950s she established herself as one of the most iconic actresses at Bucharest’s State Jewish Theatre.