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Welcome to the Hungarian Portal on Geni= This Hungarian Portal has been created to: * Link together existing Hungarian projects * Encourage new Hungarian projects to be created * Encourage collaboration between Hungarian-based Geni users, and Geni users worldwide who have Hungarian interests and connections * Promote and facilitate Hungarian genealogical research * Promote Hungary, its people, ...
Czech and Slovak Jews===There was a large and thriving community of Jews, both religious and secular, in Czechoslovakia before World War II. Many perished during the Holocaust. Today, nearly all of the survivors have inter-married and assimilated into Czech and Slovak society. From wikipedia: Czech and Slovak Jews. En , See also : History of the Jews in the Czech Republic , History of the Jews ...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families form Stupava, Slovakia (formerly also known in German as Stampfen, and in Hungarian as Stomfa).Information courtesy of several sources:Location & History:cf. Wikipedia:Stupava Situated in the Malacky District, Bratislava Region, the town is located in the Záhorie lowland, under the Little Carpathians, around 15 km (9 mi) north of Bratisla...
Trnava District (Slovak: okres Trnava) is a district in the Trnava Region of western Slovakia.[1] In its present borders the district was established in 1996. Before that date Hlohovec diatrict was a part of it. It comprises the villages around the Trnava, which forms an administrative, cultural and economy center of the district. The towns and villages are partly bedroom communities for the pe...
Bars (Latin: comitatus Barsiensis, Hungarian: Bars, Slovak: Tekov, German: Barsch) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in central and southern Slovakia. Today in Slovakia, Tekov is the informal designation of the corresponding territory.Bars County shared borders with the Hungarian counties Nyitra (Slovak: Nitra), Turóc Slovak: Turiec), Zólyo...
Turóc (Hungarian, historically also spelled Túrócz), Slovak: Turiec, Latin: Thurotzium/comitatus Thurociensis, German: Turz) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now in north-western Slovakia, where the corresponding Slovakian name Turiec is only an informal designation of the corresponding territory.Turóc county shared borders with the counties o...
Mgr. Martina Diheneščíková has undertaken a study of the Jewish Community of Secovce which will cover the community from the time of its founding through the Holocaust. Two Slovak language publications can be found online. Here is the English language abstract for the first publication: Link: (see pages 87 to 99) The Jewish community in Sečovce was one of the oldest and most influential Jew...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from Hlohovec, Slovakia.HLOHOVEC (Hung. Galgóc; Ger. Freistadtl, Freistadt; in popular Slovak Fraštak), town in W. Slovakia, until 1992 Czechoslovak Republic, then Slovak Republic. The first Jews appeared in Hlohovec with the Romans. During the 9th-century Great Moravian Empire, Jews may have lived in the location of present Hlohovec. Sin...
The mass killings in Kremnička near Banská Bystrica by the Germans and their Slovakian fascist collaborators, the Hlink guard, took place from 5 November 1944 to 17 March 1945. A total of 747 (mostly Jewish) people were murdered in the forest: 478 men, 211 women and 58 children. The figure was confirmed in post-war exhumations from the massive trenches containing the bodies. Victims were made t...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families form Košice, Slovakia. Košice was home to one of the largest and most important Jewish communities in Slovakia. In 1930, the city's more than 11,500 Jews made up 16.4 % of the total population. Jews could settle here only after 1840, when the legal ban on Jewish residence was lifted. Several streams of Judaism existed here. There were the...
This project seeks to collect information on all of the Jewish families from Humenné, Slovakia.Humenné is located in eastern Slovakia. While Jews had been living in Humenné, it was not until 1780 that the Jewish community was officially recognized. During this period, the community organized a chevra kaddisha, founded in 1787, and constructed a synagogue. Rabbi Jakob Spira was the first rabbi o...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Huncovce, Slovakia. HUNCOVCE (Ger. Hunsdorf; Hg. Hunfalu), village in N.E. Slovakia; until 1992 Czechoslovak Republic, since then Slovak Republic, seat of a famous yeshivah. It is located in the region of Spiš (Ger. Zips, Hg. Szepes), settled densely by Germans (Schwabes). The inhabitants were hostile to Jews and...
Labor camp in Slovakia. Vyhne was established in early 1940 to house 326 Jewish refugees from Prague who had been imprisoned in Sosnowiec, Poland. The group was brought to Slovakia by the Slovak Jewish Center, especially through the efforts of Gisi Fleischmann. Ultimately, most of the 326 successfully reached Palestine.In March 1942 the Germans began the mass deportation of Slovak Jewry. At tha...
This projects seeks to collect representative profiles of all the Jewish families from Pezinok (Bösing, Bazin), Slovakia. Jewish Records from Pezinok and surrounding towns PEZINOK (Slovak Pezinok; Hung. Bazín; Ger. Poesing, Boesing), town in Slovakia (part of Czechoslovakia 1918–1991; since then the Slovak Republic). In 1450 Jews were permitted to live in Pezinok, which was inhabited by Germans...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Borský Mikuláš (Senica), Slovakia. Family Search-Borský Mikuláš (Senica) Very few sources of information about the small place include this brief description in English:Borský Mikuláš - WikipediaMikuláš (Slovak pronunciation: [%CB%88borski%CB%90 ˈmikulaːʃ]; German: Bur-Sankt-Niklas, Hungarian: Búrszentmiklós) is a large v...
LUBARTWORLD [ ] The Lubartworld project combines a transnational history perspective with a microhistorical methodology by reconstructing the individual trajectories of each and every Jewish inhabitant from the Polish village of Lubartów between the early 1920s and the early 1950s, whether they emigrated or stayed behind, and whether they were exterminated or survived the Holocaust. At the Lub...
Birthdays of famous Jews throughout history. The project also includes people with Jewish ancestry (usually at least one Jewish grandparent). Generally, the project includes people with a Wikipedia page or an entry in the Jewish Encyclopedia or Jewish Women's Archive . Bold names are already on Geni and connected to the World Family Tree . Italicized names are on Geni but not yet connected to t...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from Dukla, Poland. Gesher Galicia-Dukla Wiki - Dukla Battle of Dukla Pass ===Background===Dukla is a town and an eponymous municipality in southeastern Poland, in the Subcarpathian Voivodship. The town is populated by 2,127 people (02.06.2009) while the total population of the commune (gmina) containing the town and the villages surround...
(from www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%205969.pdf)Nováky was a labor camp in central Slovakia. The first Jews were brought to Nováky in late 1941, but the camp expanded greatly in 1942, when the Germans began the mass deportation of Slovak Jews. Nováky was created due to the efforts of the Slovak Jewish Center, which had petitioned the Slovak government to establish camps where J...
This is an umbrella project for all of the Jewish communities of Slovakia.>>>>A* Alistál B* Bánovce nad Bebravou (Bánovce nad Bebravou) * Banska Bystrica * Bardejov * Beckov (Nové Mesto nad Váhom) * Bolešov (Ilava) * Borský Mikuláš (Senica)
This project aims to compile the names of all the Jewish citizens of Uzhhorod.Uzhhorod (Russian: Uzhgorod, Czech: Užhorod, Hungarian: Ungvár) is a city in western Ukraine. It is situated along the Uzh River just east of the Slovak border. For centuries Uzhhorod has been an important cultural, educational, religious, and economic centre of the Carpathian Mountains region.It was founded in the 8t...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Galanta, Slovakia.GALANTA, town in N.W. Slovakia. Until 1992 Czechoslovak Republic, since Slovak Republic. Jews started to settle in Galanta by the end of the 17th century. The earliest document is from 1729, when Count Ferdinand Eszterhazy granted the Jewish community a room for prayer and ground for a cemetery. In 1830,...
This project seeks the names of all Jewish families from the town of Erdőbénye in Hungary. Please contribute your own family information. The picture next to this entry is of part of the old Jewish complex. As of 2014, when last I visited, it was in disrepair. Some of the buildings were completely gone. If you have more recent information, please add it here. If you have photos, please feel fre...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Banska Bystrica, Slovakia.BANSKA BYSTRICA (Hg. Besztercebánya; Ger. Neusohl), town in Slovakia. As Banska Bystrica was a mining town and settled partially by ethnic Germans, Jews were not permitted to live there until 1858. The Jewish congregation was established in 1868. The congregation chose the Neolog (reform) rite. A...
This is an umbrella project for Hungarian Jewish town projects. Magyar Zsidó Lexikon Hitközségek szerinti mutató Jewish Communities of Hungary JewishGen Yizkor Books - Hungary JewishGen JewishGen Hungary Database Jewish Gen Hungarian Jewish Encyclopedia - 1929 Magyar Zsidó Lexikon Hungarian Jewish congregational archives Dr Gábor Kádár Alphabetic Town Index A Aba Abadszalo...