After the emancipation of the Jews in 1867 in what was then Hungary, their numbers also grew significantly in Târgu Mureș. Their share of the population rose from 6.1 percent in 1870 to 13.5 percent in 1930. In May and June 1944, the city's Jews, approximately 8,000 people, were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp on German orders, where most were murdered.