The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of the Jews of Szeged
juin 1944·Szeged
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City on the lower Tisza, Szeged saw its community gathered in the new synagogue and the adjoining streets, then in a brickyard on the outskirts, before the convoys that departed in early summer.
Szeged, on the Tisza, was home to a leading Neolog community, whose synagogue — one of the largest in Europe — had been built at the turn of the century, and whose rabbis counted among the intellectual figures of Hungarian Jewry. After the German occupation, the Jews of the city and the surrounding region were confined to a ghetto, then gathered in camps on the outskirts. The convoys departed in early summer; some were directed toward Austria, others 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.