Szeged, Hungary Survivor List

Background

There were 4,161 Jews living in Szeged in 1941. After the German occupation (March 19, 1944), the Jews were confined to a ghetto with the Jews from surrounding villages.

On June 25, 27, and 28, 1944, the Szeged ghetto was liquidated. Three trains, containing approximately 8,500 people, departed from Szeged, Hungary. The first train went to Auschwitz where most of the people were murdered. The second train was uncoupled, with half going to Auschwitz and half ending at the Strasshof Labor Camp outside of Vienna. The third train went to Strasshof, where some of the people survived.

For additional information on the Hungarian Holocaust experience, please visit Zchor.org/Hungaria.

The Szeged Jewish Community created index cards by family of approximately 1,700 survivors. This database has been created from those index cards which were found in July 2018. Note: Angle brackets do not contain any text on the card, an addition that was made on the basis of other external sources or other charts. Question mark in square brackets: refers to non-readable or non-comprehensible text.

Database

This database includes 3,407 records of Szeged deportation survivors. The identification of women with only married names was being done by Kathy Glatter, MD and Dóra Pataricza, PhD. The fields for this database are as follows:

• Family Unit Number
• Surname
• Given name (Hungarian form)
• Married woman’s maiden name
• Married woman’s given name
• Occupation
• Birthplace
• Birth year
• Age
• Father’s surname
• Father’s given name
• Mother’s surname
• Mother’s given name
• Marital status
• Religion
• Spouse’s surname
• Spouse’s given name
• Spouse’s religion
• Szeged address
• Arrived back to Szeged from
• Date arrived back
• Relationship to head of household
• Location at time of report prep
• Comments

Acknowledgments

This database of Jewish survivors from Szeged was created from index cards probably written by the council of the Szeged Jewish Community in beginning of May, 1944. In addition, thanks to JewishGen Inc. for providing the website and database expertise to make this database accessible.

Special thanks to Avrami Groll, Warren Blatt and Michael Tobias for their continued contributions to Jewish genealogy. Special thanks to Vera Ábrahám, Zoltán Pár Sprájcer and Gabriella Kádas (project workers of the Szeged Jewish Community).

Nolan Altman
Coordinator - JewishGen Holocaust Database
December 2018

Searching the Database

This database is searchable via the JewishGen Hungary Database and JewishGen's Holocaust Database.