At the
2021 census, Dorohoi had a population of 22,893. At the
census from 2011, the city had a population of 22,600, of which 98.13% were ethnic
Romanians, 1.54% ethnic
Romani, 0.07% ethnic
Jews, and 0.02% ethnic
Ukrainians.
Jews of Dorohoi Jews first settled in Dorohoi in the 17th century. It was set up as a Jewish Guild under
Moldavia. Jews suffered here during
World War I: • There were 600 Jewish families in Dorohoi in 1803. • 3,031 people in 1859 (roughly half of the population). • 6,804 in 1899 (more than half of the population). • 5,800 in the 1930s. For the entire Dorohoi County, most of which remained in Romania, though the Hertsa area became a part of the Soviet Union, 6,425 Jews survived the deportations to Transnistria in 1941, while 5,131 died. After the November 1941 deportations of Jews from Dorohoi County (9,367 Jews) and June 1942 (360 Jews), excluding the Jews from the Herta area that had been under Soviet occupation, 2,316 Jews were not deported. In November 1943, according to General Constantin Vasiliu, undersecretary of state for police and security in the Ministry of the Interior, if one includes the Jews deported from Dorohoi in 1942, but excluding the Hertsa area, 10,368 Jews were deported from the county, while if one includes the Jews of Hertsa, about 12,000 or more were deported. The Jewish population actually increased after the
Holocaust as a result of refugees settling there. In 1947, there were 7,600 Jews living in Dorohoi. Following the establishment of
Israel, the Jewish population of Dorohoi steadily decreased, due to emigration. In 1956, there were 2,753 Jews; in 1966, there were 1,013; and by 2000, there were only 49 Jews left in Dorohoi.
Natives •
Benjamin Abrams (1893–1967), American businessman •
Vlad Dragoș Aicoboae (born 1993), rower •
Alexandru Batcu (1892–1964), brigadier general in World War II •
Ion Călugăru (1902–1956), novelist •
Dumitru Chipăruș (1886–1947), sculptor •
Alexandru Ciucur (born 1990), footballer •
Dan Condurache (born 1952), film actor •
Octavian Cotescu (1931–1985), film and theatre actor •
Sebastian Cozmâncă (born 1992), kickboxer •
Maurice Hartt (1895–1950), Canadian politician •
Theodor V. Ionescu (1899–1988), physicist •
Alexandre Istrati (1915–1991), painter •
Gheorghe Liliac (born 1959), footballer •
Camelia Lupașcu (born 1986), rower •
Alexandru Mavrodi (1881–1934), journalist •
Gheorghe Nichita (born 1956), politician •
Marcel Olinescu (1896–1992), engraver •
Dan Pița (born 1938), film director and screenwriter •
Nicolae Samsonovici (1877–1950), general and Defense Minister • (born 1981), actor and film director •
Marius Șuleap (born 1979), footballer •
Păstorel Teodoreanu (1894–1964), humorist and poet ==Attractions==