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Translation of the Kunhegyes chapter from
Pinkas Hakehillot Hungary
Edited by: Theodore Lavi
Published by Yad Vashem
Published in Jerusalem, 1975
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Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Hungary,
Edited by Theodore Lavi, published by Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.
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Year | Number | % of Total Population |
1869 | 160 | 2.2 |
1880 | 162 | 2.1 |
1890 | 226 | 2.6 |
1900 | 312 | 3.3 |
1910 | 304 | 3.1 |
1920 | 356 | 3.2 |
1930 | 273 | 2.5 |
1941 | 224 | 2.0 |
1946 | 126 | 1.2 |
1949 | 73 | - |
In 1919 during the White Terror many of the local Jews were arrested under the suspicion that they assisted the Rightist revolutionaries, and many of them were tortured in the presence of their wives. Among the tortured were very old people. In 1922 the Jews were pestered again, licenses of saloons owners were confiscated, and young Jewish members of the Levente, a pre-army movement, were separated from their Christian counterparts, and were forced into humiliating work. The situation of the Jews of Kunhegyes worsened after the publication of Discriminatory Laws. In 1938 merchants' and artisans' licenses were confiscated. In 1941 the men were taken for forced labor.
126 men and women returned after the war from Austria. Those who returned reorganized the community. A memorial was dedicated (erected?) to the 131 victims. The enmity of the non-Jewish population caused the abandonment of the place by the majority of the Jews. 73 Jews remained in Kunhegyes in 1949. Since then their number is dropping.
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