Persecution and deportation of Jews from Sombor

Sombor, the county seat of western Bačka, saw its community plunge overnight into the Hungarian annexation regime. Businesses passed into the hands of appointed commissioners, children were excluded from schools, and men of serving age were sent to forced labor units. The community endured three years of slow dispossession before the final stage: in the spring that followed the entry of German troops into Hungary, families were concentrated in an improvised ghetto, stripped of what little remained to them, then directed toward the province's assembly points and loaded onto convoys. Sombor thus lost, within a matter of weeks, a Jewish presence stretching back more than two centuries.