Barabás is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the

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region of eastern

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. Jews settled in Barabás in the middle of the 19th century. The synagogue of the Orthodox community was built in 1910. There is a

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on the site. In 1944, after the German occupation, all the Jews of the village were deported to the

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extermination camp; only two of them survived after the war.The Jewish community in Barabás on the website of the Museum of the Jewish People
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Geography

It covers an area of and has a population of 855 people (2001).

References

External links

The jewish community in Barabás
On

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website. Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Hungary–Ukraine border crossings Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust {{Szabolcs-geo-stub