The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of the Jews of Murska Sobota
avril 1944·Murska Sobota
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With Prekmurje having been annexed by Hungary, the community of Murska Sobota, the largest in Slovenia, is locked in the ghetto and then directed toward the convoys of spring.
Murska Sobota, the chief town of Prekmurje, was home to the largest Jewish community in Slovenian territory, with its synagogue and institutions. The partition of Yugoslavia assigned the province to Hungary, which subjected the community to Budapest's racial laws — exclusion from professions, revocation of commercial licenses, conscription of men into labor battalions — but spared it from deportations for three years. The German occupation of Hungary brought this reprieve to an end. In the spring, families were gathered and confined in a ghetto, then transferred to the region's concentration centers and loaded onto convoys bound for the East. The community was annihilated; its synagogue was destroyed after the war.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Slovénie
Jaša Romano, *Jevreji Jugoslavije* ; Randolph Braham, *The Politics of Genocide* ; Zvi Loker (dir.), *Pinkas Hakehillot Yugoslavia*, Yad Vashem.