Barabás

Place in Northern Great Plain, Hungary

Coat of arms

48°14′N 22°26′E / 48.23°N 22.43°E / 48.23; 22.43CountryHungaryRegionNorthern Great PlainCountySzabolcs-Szatmár-BeregArea

^[1]

• Total38.19 km² (14.75 sq mi)Population

(2012)^[2]

• Total746 • Density20/km² (51/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

4397

Area code+36 45Websitehttps://barabas.hu/

Barabás is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.

Jews settled in Barabás in the middle of the 19th century.^[3] The synagogue of the Orthodox community was built in 1910. There is a Jewish cemetery on the site.^[4]

In 1944, after the German occupation, all the Jews of the village were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp;^[5] only two of them survived after the war.^[6]

Geography

It covers an area of 38.19 km² (15 sq mi) and has a population of 855 people (2001).

References

^ Barabás at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian).
^ Barabás at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Hungarian). 2012
^ Census of Hungarian Jews, 1993
^ the jewish cemetery in Barabás
^ Documentation of the village's Jews murdered in the Holocaust
^ The Jewish community in Barabás on the website of the Museum of the Jewish People