The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of the Jews of Munkács
mai 1944·Munkács
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Large community of Subcarpathian Ruthenia, famous for its talmudic schools, Munkács sees its Jews locked in spring in two closed districts then in a brickyard on the periphery, before being taken in several days by convoys to the death camp in Upper Silesia.
Munkács, on the Latorica, was the heart of Transcarpathian Hasidism: its rabbinical court, its yeshivot, its printing houses and its Yiddish-language newspapers made it one of the most vibrant Jewish centers in Central Europe, and Jews made up nearly half of the city's population. Following the German occupation of Hungary, the authorities confined the community to two ghettos, one in the city itself, the other in a brickyard on the outskirts, where Jews from the surrounding villages were also gathered. From there, in the spring, the convoys departed for the extermination center in Upper Silesia.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Randolph L. Braham, The Politics of Genocide ; Pinkas Hakehillot Hungaria.