The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of the Jews of Sátoraljaújhely
juin 1944·Sátoraljaújhely
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
City on the northern frontier, Sátoraljaújhely sees its Jews and those of the district confined to a very dense closed quarter, then taken by successive convoys to the extermination camp.
Sátoraljaújhely, at the foot of the Zemplén mountains, was home to a considerable Hassidic community, where Rabbi Moshé Teitelbaum had lived, his tomb drawing pilgrims from throughout the region. The town maintained its yeshivot, its houses of study, and its market. Following the German occupation of Hungary, the Jews of the town and the county were confined to a ghetto, then transported in the spring to the extermination center in Upper Silesia. The community never reconstituted itself.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Hongrie
Randolph L. Braham, The Politics of Genocide ; Pinkas Hakehillot Hungaria.