Petneháza is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
Petneháza | |
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| Country |  Hungary |
| County | Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg |
| Area | |
| • Total | 24.2 km2 (9.3 sq mi) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 1,732[1] |
| • Density | 71.6/km2 (185/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 4542 |
| Area code | 45 |
History
editThe jewish community
editThe census of 1770 mentions Jews who lived in Petneháza. Most of them worked as merchants. The Jewish community was organized at the beginning of the 19th century. During the Schism in Hungarian Jewry, following the Hungarian Jewish Congress in 1869, 1868 the community joined the Orthodox stream. There were synagogue, two cemeteries and mikveh.[2]
In 1941 young Jews from Petneháza were taken to forced labor, and only one of them survived.
In March 1944, about a month after the German army entered Hungary, the Jews of Petneháza were taken to Nyíregyháza, and from there were sent a few weeks later to the Auschwitz extermination camp.[3]
Geography
editIt covers an area of 24.2 km2 (9 sq mi) and has a population of 1732 people (2015).[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Gazetteer of Hungary, 1 January 2015. Hungarian Central Statistical Office. 3 September 2015
- ^ The jewish community in Sárospatak On the website of the Museum of the Jewish People
- ^ Documentation of the village's Jews murdered in the Holocaust
External links
edit- The jewish community in Petneháza On JewishGen website.
48°04′N 22°05′E / 48.067°N 22.083°E
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