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

Northern Great Plain The Northern Great Plain ( hu, Észak-Alföld) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of the Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Northern Great Plain includes the counties of Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Sza ...

region of eastern

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History

The jewish community

The census of 1770 mentions Jews who lived in Petneháza. Most of them worked as merchants. The Jewish community was organized at the beginning of the 19th century. During the

Schism in Hungarian Jewry The Schism in Hungarian Jewry ( hu, ortodox–neológ szakadás, "Orthodox-Neolog Schism"; yi, די טיילונג אין אונגארן, Transliteration, trans. ''Die Teilung in Ungarn'', "The Division in Hungary") was the institutional division ...

, following the Hungarian Jewish Congress in 1869, 1868 the community joined the Orthodox stream. There were synagogue, two

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and

mikveh Mikveh or mikvah (, ''mikva'ot'', ''mikvoth'', ''mikvot'', or (Yiddish) ''mikves'', lit., "a collection") is a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism to achieve ritual purity. Most forms of ritual impurity can be purif ...

. In 1941 young Jews from Petneháza were taken to forced labor, and only one of them survived. In March 1944, about a month after the German army entered Hungary, the Jews of Petneháza were taken to

Nyíregyháza Nyíregyháza (, sk, Níreďháza) is a city with county rights in northeastern Hungary and the county capital of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. With a population of 118,001, it is the seventh-largest city in Hungary and the second largest in t ...

, and from there were sent a few weeks later to the

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extermination camp.Documentation of the village's Jews murdered in the Holocaust
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Geography

It covers an area of and has a population of 1732 people (2015).

References

External links

The jewish community in Petneháza
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