Barabás
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Barabás | |
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 Coat of arms | |
  Barabás Location of Barabás in Hungary | |
| Coordinates: 48°14′N 22°26′E / 48.23°N 22.43°E | |
| Country | Hungary |
| Region | Northern Great Plain |
| County | Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg |
| Area | |
• Total | 38.19 km2 (14.75 sq mi) |
| Population (2012)[2] | |
• Total | 746 |
| • Density | 20/km2 (51/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 4397 |
| Area code | +36 45 |
| Website | https://barabas.hu/ |
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
[edit]It covers an area of 38.19 km2 (15 sq mi) and has a population of 855 people (2001).
References
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]- The jewish community in Barabás On JewishGen website.
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