The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of the Jews of Beregszász
mai 1944·Beregszász
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A town of vineyards in Subcarpathian Ruthenia, Beregszász saw its Jews and those from surrounding villages crammed into a brickyard, searched and stripped, then taken by convoys towards the death camp.
Beregszász, on the Bereg plain, held an ancient community whose families lived from viticulture, trade, and craftsmanship, with its synagogue, its houses of study, and its mutual aid societies. After the German occupation of Hungary, the Jews of the town and the surrounding district villages were confined in a brickworks on the outskirts, where they remained for several weeks in complete destitution. The convoys departed in the spring toward the extermination center in Upper Silesia; Beregszász lost its Jewish population.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Randolph L. Braham, The Politics of Genocide ; Pinkas Hakehillot Hungaria.