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Translation of the Nyirmeggyes chapter from
Pinkas Hakehillot Hungary
Edited by: Theodore Lavi
Published by Yad Vashem
Published in Jerusalem, 1975
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This is a translation from: Pinkas Hakehillot Hungary: Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Hungary,
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Translated by Jerrold Landau
Donated by Aaron Slotnik
Nyirmeggyes is a village in the District of Szatmár, Region of Mátészalka. In 1941, its population was 2,402.
Jewish Population
Year | Population |
1784/85 | 32 |
1880 | 227 |
1900 | 210 |
1930 | 139 |
Until the Second World War
The first Jews of Nyirmeggyes arrived in the second half of the 18th century, with the support of the estate owners. Since the residents of Nyirmeggyes were mainly of Romanian extraction, the estate owners looked upon the Jews as tending toward Hungarian culture, and therefore deserving of their support and protection.
The community defined itself as Orthodox, and was dependent on Mátészalka from 1885.
There was a synagogue there. We do not know the year that it was built. There was also a Chevra Kadisha, a cheder, and a mikva. Rabbi Shmuel David HaLevi Jungreisz served in Nyirmeggyes from 1925.
The Holocaust
Just after Passover, 1944, the Jews of Nyirmeggyes were transported to the Mátészalka Ghetto, from where they were transported to Auschwitz.
The community of Nyirmeggyes was not reconstituted after war.
Bibliography:
Borovszky: Szatmár vármegye, p. 128. In: Magyarország vmi.
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