Barabas

Barabás

Barabás

Place in Hungary

Barabás is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.

For other uses, see Barabas (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Barabbas.
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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

  1. [1]
    Barabás at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian).
  2. [2]
    Barabás at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian). 2012
  3. [3]
    Census of Hungarian Jews, 1993
  4. [4]
    the jewish cemetery in Barabás
  5. [5]
    Documentation of the village's Jews murdered in the Holocaust
  6. [6]
    The Jewish community in Barabás on the website of the Museum of the Jewish People



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