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Hungary

1. It is a tourism and commercial center. Originally a Celtic settlement called Scarabantia, it became a military outpost under the Romans. Hungarians settling the area in the 10th and 11th cent. made the city an important fortress. Sopron was the site of the coronation of King (later emperor) Ferdinand III of Hungary and Bohemia in 1625 and a meeting place of the Hungarian Parliament in 1681. Part of the Burgenland, it was transferred to Austria after World War I but was returned to Hungary after a plebiscite (1921).

2. Sopron is one of the oldest cultural centers in Hungary; it has a university, three 13th-century churches, and a 15th-century palace.

3. Jews there during 14th century, according to the prevailing custom in a "Jewish street." Expelled in 1360, during their absence the debts owed to them were canceled upon the request of the citizens of Sopron. 1495 a special tax was imposed on them. When the whole of Hungary was conquered by the Turks in 1526, the Jews were expelled from the town "forever." 1858 anti-Jewish riots. Synagogue erected in 1876, and in 1884 a school was built. During World War II, after the German occupation (March 19, 1944), the Jews deported to the death camp at Auschwitz. Only a few returned. Even after deportation, inhabitants of Sopron did not help to alleviate suffering of thousands of Jews from forced labor camps who passed through the town on their last halt before being sent to the death camps in Germany.

1. 1395 King Sigismund authorized the owner of the castle in Koszeg to admit Jews to the town. 1532 Jews fled. 17th century revolt and whole town destroyed by fire. After German occupation (March 19, 1944), Jews first confined in a narrow ghetto (May 14, 1944), and later forced to lodge in an open barn. On June 18 all were transported to central ghetto of region, in the town of Szombathely. There tortured to induce them to hand over their property. The 117 Jews from Koszeg were deported to Auschwitz on July 4, 1944; only 15 returned. Under the regime of the Fascist Arrow Cross Party, a labor camp was set up ouside the town in which 5,000 Jews, including women who had been brought there on a death march, were imprisoned. By March 1945 some 3,000 Jews had died of hunger, disease, or torture, or had been executed. The survivors were then marched to Mauthausen and Wells; those who were unable to walk were either gassed or shot.

1. An important railway junction. Has been an episcopal see since the 17th cent. and has a women's college. The city was founded in 48 A.D. by the Roman emperor Claudius and called Sabaria. Septimius Severus was proclaimed (193) emperor there, and St. Martin of Tours was born (c.316) in the city. Was destroyed (5th cent.) by the Huns but was rebuilt.

2. The city has an 18th-century cathedral, a 17th-century Dominican church, and an episcopal palace with a museum of antiquities. Ruins of a triumphal arch, an amphitheater, and an aqueduct have been excavated nearby.

3. Jews lived there as merchants from 1687, but only in 1840 were they permitted to settle permanently. New synagogue in 1880. During World War II, after the entry of the Germans on March 19, 1944, about 4,220 Jews deported to death camp at Auschwitz, of whom some 250 returned. The synagogue of the community was converted into a concert-hall.

1. By 1714 first synagogue built. At that time the tax collector of the city was a Jew. New synagogue built 1743. Blood libel case (1882), anti-Jewish riots broke out but suppressed by the authorities.The last rabbi was J. Haberfeld, who perished with his congregation in the Holocaust. Anti-Jewish laws of 1938–39 caused great hardship in the community, and from 1940 young Jewish men were sent to forced-labor battalions, at first within Hungary, but later to Russian front (1942). After German occupation on March 19, 1944, confined in a ghetto on May 24 and from there moved to a concentration camp which was set up in a factory in the town. On July 4 and 5 2,565 Jews of the city plus 300 from the vicinity were deported to Auschwitz, from which less than 10% returned.

1. It is a commercial center. Made a bishopric by St. Stephen in 1001, <

2. Has an 18th-century episcopal palace, a cathedral (rebuilt many times), a former citadel, and a museum containing Roman remains. The tall Turkish minaret is now a fire tower.

3. Between 1723 and 1725 three Jewish families settled in the city, and in 1736 there were 16 Jews there. Although Veszprem Jews leased land for a synagogue in 1799, it was not built until 1865. A school was founded in 1805 and existed until the Holocaust. After the German conquest (March 19, 1944) about 880 Jews were deported to Auschwitz and only a few of them returned.

1. It is a county administrative center, a road and rail junction, and an industrial center. It is also a market center for horses, wines, and farm produce. Dating from Roman times and known until the middle 16th cent. as Alba Regia, it was (1027–1527) the coronation and burial place of Hungary's kings. An important fortress town, it was destroyed during the Turkish occupation of Hungary (1543–1688) and rebuilt in the 18th cent.

2. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishopric and has two palaces, several churches, and a museum containing Roman antiquities. The city was heavily damaged during World War II.

3. Jews there in the 13th century, and the community, an important one during the 14th, played a role in Jewish affairs in the country as a whole. In interceded with the queen on behalf of the Jews of Pressburg (Bratislava) in 1503. First synagogue erected in 1867. From 1938 the community was affected by the restrictions and disabilities imposed on the Jews in Hungary. After the German occupation (March 19, 1944) about 5,000 Jews were concentrated in Szekesfehervar and with the 2,075 Jews in the town were deported to the death camp at Auschwitz. Only 250 returned.

1. Jewish ghetto.

1. Jews first settled there in 1720. After German occupation (March 19, 1944), about 730 members of the community deported to Auschwitz.  

1. Jews settled there about 1725. March 1840 communal buildings devastated and community nearly ruined in a general conflagration. New synagogue in 1845, a secondary school was opened in 1878, and the hospital was rebuilt in 1882. April 14, 1944, German military detachments deported 150 men from the Jewish community. Those who did not perish in Auschwitz were later taken to Bergen-Belsen and Stettin (now Szczecin). The first hostages were followed two months later by the mass deportation of almost the entire Jewish community of Baja to Auschwitz. Fifteen to 20 families lived to see the liberation of their city. 

1. It is an agricultural center and is famed for its embroidery and paprika. Created a bishopric by St. Stephen, it became the seat of an archbishop in 1260.

2. The town has a Roman Catholic academy, a cathedral, and an archiepiscopal palace (built in 1786).

1. It is a county administrative center, a road and rail hub, and a manufacturing city Known since the 4th cent.

2. The city has several churches, a museum, and a law school with a large library.

3. First Jews in 16th to 17th centuries. 1715 municipal council was requested to order Jews attending fairs to do their business separately from other merchants. Attacked during revolution of 1848 and shops looted. A magnificent synagogueerected in 1871; it was destroyed by an earthquake in 1911 but was rebuilt in 1913. After the end of World War I, "White Terror" pogroms in the town and eight Jewish victims lost their lives. May 1944, after the German invasion of Hungary (March 19, 1944), rounded up and treated with exceptional brutality by members of the S.S. Their suffering was so great that 70 of them committed suicide by taking poison; 13 people were smuggled out at the last minute with the aid of forged documents. At the end of June, the 1,400 Jews in the ghetto were sent from the brickyard of Kecskemet to Auschwitz, from which only 150 returned.

1. It is a road and rail junction.

1. At the confluence of the Tisza and Maros rivers. It is a river port, a railroad hub, and an agricultural center. Famous for its paprika and salami. Is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishopric. The first national assembly of the Magyar tribes under their chief, Arpad, met (9th or 10th cent.) in the city, which became a military stronghold and trade center of the Arpad kings. Was sacked by the Tatars and the Turks and was ruled by the latter from 1542 to 1686. The city was partly destroyed by a flood in 1879 and was rebuilt in modern style.

2. It has a university (founded 1921), a medical school, and a large library. Among its landmarks are a 13th-century Romanesque tower and the 16th-century Mathias church.

3. Jews at the close of the 18th century. Previously, the Austrian emperor and Hungarian king Charles III had left the choice "whether or not to accept Jews and gypsies" in the hands of the "free royal cities," and these cities, including Szeged, took advantage of this right to exclude them. The erection of the first synagogue was planned for 1789, but because of opposition from the authorities was not built until 1803. It was replaced by another (the "Old Synagogue") in 1839, which stood until 1905, when the Great Synagogue was erected. Noted for its magnificence (it has been declared an architectural monument). There were 4,161 Jews living in Szeged in 1941. After the German occupation (March 19, 1944), the Jews were confined to a ghetto, where the Jews of the immediate vicinity were also concentrated. From there some were deported to Auschwitz, and others to Austria. About half returned from deportation, numbering 2,124 in 1946.

1. Jews first settled in 1748 but expelled in 1770 because of the objections raised by the Greek Orthodox Church. Synagogue built in 1857. Their economy was ruined in 1938 as a result of the first anti-Jewish restrictions. From 1940 the men were conscripted for labor battalions, and after the German occupation, on June 16, 1944, they were transferred to the ghetto in Szeged. From there, 378 of them were deported to Auschwitz and 500 to Wiener-Neustadt, and other places in Austria, where members of the same family were not separated.

1. On the Muresul River near the Romanian border. It is an administrative and trade center and a road hub in a fertile agricultural region. The center of the Hungarian onion industry, Makoalso has textile mills.

2. Jews were first authorized to settle there in 1740. First synagogue erected in 1814, and the magnificent great synagogue built in 1914. After the German invasion (March 19, 1944) the local Jews were deported to Auschwitz and some to Austria.

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