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Kiskunhalas (Ungheria) CercaDefinizione
Coordinates: 46º26'N 19º30'E
Distance from national capital: 127 km (76 mi) SSE of Budapest
1926 County: Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun (county town)
Jewish population in 1941: 742
Total population in 1941: 33,758
Country before and during WWI:
1900-1918: Austria-Hungary
Country during interwar period:
1918-1939: Hungary
Administration during WWII:
1939-1945: Hungary
Country after WWII:
1945-: Hungary
In the spring of 1944 Hungarian authorities established a ghetto in the town of Kiskunhalas, into which all the local Jews were commanded to move. The ghetto inhabitants were soon evacuated to a brick factory in Szeged. The Jews of Kiskunhalas were then deported in three groups: two groups, containing about 750 persons, to Austria, and one group to Auschwitz.
In October 1944 a group of about two hundred twenty young Jewish forced laborers were murdered in Kiskunhalas by German SS members who were en route to the front. Four hundred fifty survivors of the Holocaust returned to Kiskunhalas from Austria after the war. (en-US)
Fonte
Kepecs, Jozsef, ed. A Zsidó népesség száma településenként, 1840-1941. Budapest : Központi Statisztikai Hivatal, 1993. p. 230