town
A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city.
The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
in
Békés county
Békés (, , ) is an administrative division (county or ''vármegye'') in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád-Csanád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar. The capital ...
, in the
Southern Great Plain
The Southern Great Plain ( ) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Southern Great Plain includes the counties of Bács-Kiskun, Békés, and Csongrád-Csanád. The region is in the ...
region
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of south-east
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
.
Geography
It covers an area of 125.76 km2 and has a population of 6855 people (2015). The town is situated in the Tisza plain.
History
North of the modern town there is the archaeological site of a
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...
tell. At its top the medieval Csolt monastery is located.
The jewish community
In the 19th century, a Jewish community lived in the village. Most of them worked as merchants and later became industrialists. Their non-Jewish neighbors trusted them and some Jews were even elected to the city council and were also active in the town's culture. Relationships with their neighbors were generally good.
The community had a Jewish school. The community
synagogue
A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It is a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as wed ...
was built in
1934
Events
January–February
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* January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...
after the previous synagogue was destroyed in a flood.
In 1920, 181 Jews lived in the community.
In May 1944, after the German army entered Hungary, all the Jews were concentrated in a ghetto that included only two buildings in the city center, which were declared ghettos.
On June 21, all Jews were sent to the Szolnok Ghetto, where the author, Ida Lang, was murdered as a result of torture. Most of the Jews were transferred from Szolnok to the Auschwitz extermination camp.
After the war, 34 survivors returned to the city, erected a monument in memory of the murdered, and tried to rehabilitate the community without success.The Jewish Community of Veszto in The Museum of the Jewish People website
Brăduț
Brăduț (; ) is a commune in Covasna County, Transylvania, Romania composed of four villages: Brăduț, Doboșeni (''Székelyszáldobos''), Filia (''Erdőfüle''), and Tălișoara (''Olasztelek'').
Geography
The commune is situated in the nort ...
, Romania (1991)
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Vârghiș
Vârghiș (, Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune in Covasna County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Vârghiș.
History
The village formed part of the Székely Land region of the historical Transylvania province ...
, Romania (1991)
Notable residents
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Menyhért Lakatos
Menyhért Lakatos (April 11, 1926, Vésztő — August 21, 2007, Budapest) was a Romani people in Hungary, Hungarian Romani writerLászló Hajdu (1947-), Hungarian economist and politician