It was located in the city of Sfântu Gheorghe (Hungarian: Sepsiszentgyörgy) in today's Covasna County, Transylvania, now part of Romania but administered by the Kingdom of Hungary from the 1940 Second Vienna Award's grant of Northern Transylvania until late 1944.
The committee for deciding on its location was composed of county prefect Gábor Szentiványi, whose conduct toward the rural Jews was relatively humane; his assistant Andor Barábas; the Sfântu Gheorghe chief of police, István Vincze; and lieutenant-colonel Balla, commander of the county's gendarmerie.
Together with Adolf Eichmann's assistant László Endre, they had all taken part in a planning conference at Târgu Mureș.
[1] The ghettoization procedure for the Jews of Sfântu Gheorghe unfolded differently from other areas.
[1] The Ciuc Jews, including those from Miercurea Ciuc, were rounded up under orders from county prefect Ernő Gaáli; his assistant József Abraham; Miercurea Ciuc mayor Gerő Szász; his chief of police, Pál Farkas; and the city's gendarmerie commander, locotenent-colonel Tivadar Lóhr.