The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of the Jews of Makó
juin 1944·Makó
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City of market gardens on the lower Tisza, Makó sees its Jews confined to a closed quarter then directed towards the gathering camps of the region, from which the summer convoys depart.
Makó, on the Maros, was home to an ancient community whose families lived from the onion trade, which had made the town's reputation, and from commercial pursuits. It had its Orthodox synagogue and its institutions. After the German occupation of Hungary, the Jews of Makó and the surrounding district were confined to a ghetto, then taken to assembly camps in the south of the country. The convoys departed in early summer toward Austria and 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.