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Hungarian Cities and Villages
Miscellaneous information and links follow to help anyone wishing to begin a Hungarian Community town project for their family, and link to this Umbrella Project.
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Elnök: Sárosi György Hitközség és zsinagóga: 4400 Nyíregyháza, Mártírok tere 6. Telefon: (06-42) 417-939 E-mail: nyirzsido@gmail.com Irodai nyitva tartás: hétfő-csütörtök 8-14 óráig Weboldal: www.sofar-ujsag.hu Újság: Sófár Temető: 4400 Nyíregyháza, Kótaji u. 5-7. (Tel: 06 30 490-0084)
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Hungarian Cities and Villages
A Jewish community of a few hundred. A ghetto was established by the Nazis in April 1944 and in June, the Jews were deported to Auschwitz.
Record of the Jewish names registered in the rabbinic congregation Arva Megye, Hungary, 1787
The place should be instantly recognizable to all fans of the horror novel as the place where Jonathan Harker stopped off on his way to Castle Dracula. Bistritz is described near the opening of the book as an old place close to the frontier between Hungary and the Austrian province of Bukovina. There are other details in the book about the town and region that author Bram Stoker picked up from books in the British Library.
Located in northeast Hungary
 Buda on one side and Pest is on the other - Budapest.. Capital of Hungary, technically lies in both Eastern and Western Europe. The Danube River divides the city into Buda and Pest, distinct entities until they were joined to form Budapest in 1872. This beautiful city is considered the 'Paris' of the East'. In the 19th and early twentieth centuries, an area just north of the Dohány Street Synagogue was once heavily Jewish - nearly 1 in 4 residents of Budapest was Jewish.
Cemetery This cemetery as reported by the Heritage Foundation for Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries (HFPJC) is not in good condition *http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/hungary/budszentmihaly.html
The Rusyn name for Bustyahaza. Bustyahaza was the former Magyar (Hungarian) name when it was in Maramaros County. During the Soviet period, it had the spelling Bushtyna, which is also the current Ukrainian spelling. Bushtino was the former Czechoslovak official place name.
There was a Jewish presence - located in Zemplen megye (Zemplen county)
Formerly known as Kolozsvar and was located in Hungary in the late 18th century.
Located in Hungary's Hajdu Megye (Country) Raoul Wallenberg disappeared somewhere on his way to having a meeting with Marshall Rodion Malinovsky in Debrecen.
It is the third largest city in Hungary, located in the northeastern part of the country on the Nagy Alfold (Great Plain), near the present-day Romanian border. Debrecen is a major center of Hungarian Calvinism. In 1941, 9,142 Jews lived there, comprising 7.3 percent of the population. An officially recognized Jewish community existed in the city from the mid-nineteenth century
Dunaújváros is situated on the left bank of the Danube, on the loess plateau of Pentele and in its side-valley, on the eastern border of Mezőföld.
"A Dunapentelei Zsido Kozosseg - Temetojuk - Fotok iv Kotet" (The Jewish Community of Dunapentele, Hungary) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
A port on the Adriatic near Trieste that used to be in the Hungarian county of Modrus-Fiume. Today it is in either Croatia or Slovenia depending upon when the border changes.
There are Regional Special Interest Groups that have Hungary information and links. The site includes links to Bohemia-Moravia SIG, Denmark SIG, German-Jewish SIG, Hungary SIG and Stammbaum - German SIG
 Gyor Synagogue Contact Stephen Schmideg There are Regional Special Interest Groups that have Hungary information and links. The site includes links to Bohemia-Moravia SIG, Denmark SIG, German-Jewish SIG, Hungary SIG and Stammbaum - German SIG
A city in southern Hungary. Jews first settled on the estate of the family of Count Károlyi within the boundaries of the city in 1748 but were expelled in 1770 because of the objections raised by the Greek Orthodox Church *http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0009_...
Homok is the Magyar name for Kholmok.
Formerly located in Czechoslovakia but now in the District of Uzhgorod, Transcarpathia (today Kholmok (Cholmok), Ukraine), *http://compellingjewishstories.blogspot.com/2010/08/net-of-dreams-f...

A village of few thousand people, 40 km from Budapest "Walk In My Shoes" Collected Memories of the Holocaust
This site has summaries of the towns around Kisvarda - just follow the links
It was the site of the first Jewish ghetto established on Hungarian territory, following the German occupation of the country in 1944.
Located south of Budapest. Synagogue has a synagogue that is currently being restored. It will now be used as a cultural center, including a concert hall and gallery. The synagogue was built in 1911-12 and combines traditional Jewish symbolism with Hungarian designs in Art Nouveau style. It functioned as a house of worship until 1964, when the official Hungarian Jewish community sold it and was used as a furniture warehouse until it was no longer used, and then left vacant. Restoration work was initiated by municipal authorities in 1990s.
Cemetery There is a Jewish cemetery here *http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/hungary/latrany-somogy.html
 The city is located close to several villages where Hasidic rabbis are known to be buried.
Synagogue There is a baroque style synagogue still standing. The town is in the northeastern part of Hungary and the synagogue is now being restored and is expected to be used as a memorial museum and educational center It was built around 1795 and is one of the finest surviving examples of this type of synagogue architecture and one of the oldest surviving synagogues still standing in the country. Since 1944, the synagogue has stood empty when the Jewish community was deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. Remaining today, though not in good condition, is the synagogue itself along with the former yeshiva and the rabbi's residence, though all are in disrepair.
 The last Jews of Miskolc http://www.aritapiero.com/the-last-jews-of-miskolc.html Seat of Borsod county, Hungary. Founded by a steady stream of immigrants from Moravia from the 1720s on, the Jewish community of Miskolc grew slowly during the eighteenth century. Until the 1820s, its only functioning communal institutions were the burial society, founded in 1767, and a seven-man executive committee appointed in 1769 to collect the Toleration Tax on behalf of the royal crown. The community had no rabbi until the 1770s, and, until 1784, only a single school, which had been founded in 1734. A Josephinian Normalschule, established in 1784 and highly praised by Ferenc Kazinczy, superintendant of schools for the Habsburg government and a leading figure in the Magyar national revival, functioned for just three years.
According to the census of 1848, the three most common occupations for Jews were in commerce, tavern keeping, and artisanry. Jewish artisans first organized in 1813 and were recognized as an official guild by the royal crown and the county diet in 1836. Jews were among the city’s leading commercial and industrial entrepreneurs. Joseph Lichtenstein, for example, was a cofounder in 1845 of the first credit bank in Miskolc
The Kazinczy Street Synagogue of Miskolc is the only surviving synagogue in the city of Miskolc, Hungary, and the only still functioning synagogue of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county
Once located in Hungary, it is now Mukachevo, Ukraine. It is a city located in the Zakarpattia oblast and is an important industrial and cultural center in the region. Mukachevo city has the population of about 95,000 (2010). Mukachevo is located in a very picturesque area at the southwestern foot of the Carpathian Mountains. The town stands on the Latoritza River, 40 kilometers northwest of Uzhhorod. Mukachevo was rather big according to Subcarpathian standards. At the beginning of the 20th century its population constituted 32,000 people. Half the population was Jewish. There were also Hutsuls [Ukrainians in Subcarpathia], Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks and other nationalities. People were friendly, tolerant and respectful toward each other’s customs and religion. There were never any Jewish pogroms [4] in this area.
Regional Special Interest Groups The site includes links to Bohemia-Moravia SIG, Denmark SIG, German-Jewish SIG, Hungary SIG and Stammbaum - German SIG
Located 126 miles ENE of Budapest *www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/pinkas_hungary/hun379.html
Once had a prominent Jewish community. The town counted approximately 4,000 Jews. There is one synagogue still standing, though it had at one time four. Inside the synagogue, is a beautiful interior that holds memories of the four thousand Jews who were murdered there.
This town was in Hungary before WW 1 and was the capital of Hungary from 1541 (when the Turks captured Buda) until 1784.
Some 2,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz in 1944 *http://www.angelfire.com/ia3/study/salgotarjanang.htm Holocaust
Records 1869 Census
Records In the record books for this city, for the first time a Jew is mentioned in 1664. The names were Macskassy Janos and his wife Zsido Katalin. "Jewish Orthodox records(1887-1895) Not microfilmed by the Mormons. The records are almost complete! Only 4 records are missing: Birth: 1889 and 1892 Marriage: 1891 Death: 1889 "I was lucky enough to find my gg-parents marriage certificate(1894) with all its precious information, as well as a wealth of data that has greatly enriched my family tree!" From a posting by Andres Carciente
It has been just published in Israel a new book about Satoraljaujhely by Mr. Mnashe Davidovits: It provides two lists: 1)*Martyrs* and 2)*Survivors* As there are not deportation lists available (till now), what Mr. Davidovits did was to collect the birth certificates from the children born between 1928 and 1944:they were the most vulnerable ones (age 0 till 16) together with their mothers. The author also collected information from Yad Vashem and from survivors' testimonies.
The book includes important sections from Meir SAS' famous book, that is out of print (Toronto,1986) and a classic by itself, and also sections from Mr. Csiki's book. The book is trilingual: English, Hungarian and Hebrew. From a posting on JewishGen by Andre Carciente andrescarciente@yahoo.com Editor's Note: Mr. Carciente does not mention the name of the book.
This is a mining town where Jews were not permitted to settle until the middle of the 19th century. The first Jews arrived in the 1870s and by the 1920s there about 150 Jews (140 families) here. In 1910 there were 527 Jews. The Chevra Kadisha was established in 1892. The business life of the town and its surrounds were dominated by Jewish merchants, manufactures and craftsmen. Prominent names in the 1920s were Jakab Hell, Kalman Ungar, Adolf Weisz, Sandor Erdos and Jeno Timfold. *http://www.selmec-sopron.eu/eng_32_web.pdf
Now known as Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania
Located at 48-10/25 and about 25 miles from the Ukrainian border.
"The Jews of Stropkov"

 On the left side – Salamon Rubinstein, seller, 1829-1917, before of him is his wife, and the Family Ungar, they were peasant Jews, sellers, too. They had lived near to Fured, on Tiszaigar, Nagyivan, the wedding photo was made in 1906, in Karcag.
 "In 1761, a Jew Philep Izsak (note: in this period, any official record would have the notation "Judaeus" in front of the name of any Jew) and his wife, Judovics Erzsebet, bought a house in Paloty Street from the Honourable (lit: nagysagos) Szegedy Johanna. There is a mention from a generation earlier in a less official form.
Teutsch David, an Ujhely resident who passed away in 1860, mentioned in his will that his grandfather settled in Ujhely in 1734, when there were only two Jewish families there. Later, one find more frequent mention of Jews buying real property. Here, according to the city's registry book, on May 8, 1799, Kozba Gabor and his wife sold their house in Cserko street to the Jew David Rabbe and Markus Anna, along with the cellar.
The first mention of the existence of a Jewish school in Ujhely is from 1744, in the record book of the steward of the Regeczi and Pataki estate (Conscriptio Pratorum). Here it mentions that in the "Willow Tree meadow," which was owned by the city, there was a small section set aside for the Jewish school.
The above mentioned documents cast an interesting light on land ownership by the Jews in the mid-18th century. It suggest that the claim that Jews could not buy or inherit land in the earliest times is a fallacy. It is possible that Zemplen County was more liberal in this regard than the laws of the rest of the country, and followed a different rule. "
There are Regional Special Interest Groups that have Hungarian information and links. The site includes links to Bohemia-Moravia SIG, Denmark SIG, German-Jewish SIG, Hungary SIG and Stammbaum - German SIG
Now known as Orasu Nou and was in the eastern part of Szatmarmegye (approx. 1878)
This town was once located in Hungary, but now is in Ukraine. It is about 15 miles ESE from Ungvar
Records This site offers the 1848 Census of Jewish Residents
Located between Satumare and Sighet in Transylvania.
Yizkor Book "Bedamayich Chayi" Published in Jerusalem and based on a Pinkas Mohalim
Located in the Carpathian Mountain, now in the Ukraine, but previously it was part of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Links connect to maps, family memoirs, pictures and links to other Carpathian Jewish sites. Webmaster is Karin Wandrei kwandrei@pacific.net
There was a Jewish presence - located in Zemplen megye (Zemplen county) *http://www.library.utoronto.ca/moorish/synhtm/Vranov%20nad%20Topl'ou.htm