The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of the Jews of Ungvár
mai 1944·Ungvár
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Chief town of Subcarpathian Ruthenia, Ungvár sees its community assembled in a brick factory and sawmill on the outskirts of the town, where families wait in the open air before being loaded in successive convoys toward the death camp.
Ungvár, the administrative capital of Transcarpathia, was home to a large community, divided between the Orthodox and Hasidim, with its great synagogue on the banks of the Ouj, its schools and its institutions. After the German occupation of Hungary, the gendarmerie confined the Jews of the city and the surrounding districts in the brick factories of the outskirts, where they remained without sufficient water or shelter. The convoys left Ungvár in the spring, at a rate of several per week, toward the extermination center in Upper Silesia. The community was never reconstituted.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Randolph L. Braham, The Politics of Genocide ; Pinkas Hakehillot Hungaria.