The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of the Jews of Debrecen
juin 1944·Debrecen
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Second city of the kingdom, Debrecen saw its Jews locked in a closed quarter then taken to the brick factory of Serly, where communities from the county also arrived, before the convoys of late spring.
Debrecen, Hungary's second city and Calvinist capital, was home to a large and ancient community, divided between Orthodox and status quo ante congregations, with its two great neighboring synagogues, its schools and its hospital. Following the German occupation, the Jews of the city and the county were confined in a ghetto and then in the assembly camps at the brickworks and the freight station. The convoys departed in early summer; some were directed toward Austria, others toward the extermination center in Upper Silesia.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Hongrie
Randolph L. Braham, The Politics of Genocide ; Pinkas Hakehillot Hungaria.