Barabás

For other uses, see Barabas (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Barabbas.

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

Barabás
Coat of arms
Barabás Location of Barabás in Hungary
Coordinates: 48.23°N 22.43°E / 48.23; 22.43
Country	Hungary
Region	Northern Great Plain
County	Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
Area [1]
• Total	38.19 km2 (14.75 sq mi)
Population  (2012)[2]
• Total	746
• Density	20/km2 (51/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	4397
Area code	+36 45
Website	https://barabas.hu/

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

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

External links

• The jewish community in Barabás On JewishGen website.