The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of the Jews of Pécs
juillet 1944·Pécs
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Episcopal city of southern Transdanubia, Pécs sees its Jews penned in a brickyard in the suburbs with those of the county, searched and stripped, before convoys in early summer.
Pécs, an episcopal and university city of southern Transdanubia, was home to a thriving Neolog community whose synagogue, built the previous century on the central square, ranked among the finest in Hungary; its families had long held a prominent place in industry, commerce, and the liberal professions. Following the German occupation, the Jews of the city and of the Baranya county were confined to a ghetto, then transferred to the camps on the outskirts. The convoys departed in early summer for 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.