Gulács is a village in
Szabolcs–Szatmár–Bereg county, in the
Northern Great Plain region of eastern
Hungary
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History
The jewish community
Jews began to settle in Gulács at the beginning of the 20th century. Most of them owned farms and a minority were engaged in trade and craft. There was a synagogue and a
Jewish cemetery
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In 1941, six young Jews from the village were recruited for forced labor, three Three of them died.
In 1944, after the German occupation, all the Jews were transferred to the
Berehove
Berehove ( uk, Берегове; hu, Beregszász) is a city located in Zakarpattia Oblast (province) in western Ukraine, near the border with Hungary. It is the cultural centre of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine.
Serving as the administrativ ...
ghetto, where about 10,000 Jews living in the area were concentrated. In mid-May, they were sent to the
Auschwitz extermination camp.
Documentation of the Jews of Golach who were murdered in the Holocaust
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After the war, only two Jewish women who left soon returned to Gulács. The synagogue and the Jewish cemetery were not damaged in the war.
Population
External links
The jewish community in Gulács
On JewishGen
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website.
References
Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County
Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust
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