Ricse (sometimes erroneously written as Risce) is a village in the

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wine region in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, in Eastern

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. Prior to World War II Ricse was home to a thriving Jewish community. The founder of Paramount Pictures,

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, was born in Ricse in 1873 before emigrating to the United States in 1889.

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, Hungarian-

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businessman, founder of

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Ricse internment camp at World War II

Established in 1940, the camp at Ricse was Zemplén County's largest

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. Prisoners were mainly

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from

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, and other

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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 Kamianets-Podilskyi ( uk, Ка́м'яне́ць-Поді́льський, russian: Каменец-Подольский, Kamenets-Podolskiy, pl, Kamieniec Podolski, ro, Camenița, yi, קאַמענעץ־פּאָדאָלסק / קאַמעניץ, ...

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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References

Populated places in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Shtetls {{Borsod-geo-stub