Ricse (sometimes erroneously written as Risce) is a village in the
Tokaj wine region in
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, in Eastern
Hungary. Prior to World War II Ricse was home to a thriving Jewish community. The founder of Paramount Pictures,
Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor (; hu, Zukor Adolf; January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976) was a Hungarian-American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures.Obituary ''Variety Obituaries, Variety'' (June 16, 1976), p. 76. He produ ...
, was born in Ricse in 1873 before emigrating to the United States in 1889.
Notable people
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Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor (; hu, Zukor Adolf; January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976) was a Hungarian-American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures.Obituary ''Variety Obituaries, Variety'' (June 16, 1976), p. 76. He produ ...
,
Hungarian-
American
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businessman, founder of
Paramount Pictures
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Ricse internment camp at World War II
Established in 1940, the camp at Ricse was
Zemplén County's largest
internment camp. Prisoners were mainly
Jews from
Hungary,
Poland,
Slovakia, and other
refugees
A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution. rounded up by the Hungarian authorities. Prisoners who were unable to prove their Hungarian citizenship were also interned there. The inmates included men, women, and children. The site consisted of military barracks containing sleeping quarters with cots and blankets. The camp was fenced in and guarded by armed Hungarians, possibly soldiers. In the summer of 1941, most of the internees were transferred from Ricse to
Körösmező and then to
Kamianets-Podilskyi in German-occupied Ukraine, where they were murdered at the end of August 1941.
[Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume III, page 368]
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Street map
References
Populated places in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County
Shtetls
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