Barabás is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
Jews settled in Barabás in the middle of the 19th century.[3] The synagogue of the Orthodox community was built in 1910. There is a Jewish cemetery on the site.[4]
In 1944, after the German occupation, all the Jews of the village were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp;[5] only two of them survived after the war.[6]
Geography
It covers an area of 38.19 km2 (15 sq mi) and has a population of 855 people (2001).
References
- ^ Barabás at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian).
- ^ Barabás at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian). 2012
- ^ Census of Hungarian Jews, 1993
- ^ the jewish cemetery in Barabás
- ^ Documentation of the village's Jews murdered in the Holocaust
- ^ The Jewish community in Barabás on the website of the Museum of the Jewish People
External links
- The jewish community in Barabás On JewishGen website.
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