Pinkas Hakehillot Hungary: Nyirmeggyes

“Nyirmeggyes” - Encyclopedia of Jewish
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Translation of the “Nyirmeggyes” chapter from
Pinkas Hakehillot Hungary

Edited by: Theodore Lavi

Published in Jerusalem, 1975

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Nyirmeggyes
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 18^th 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 vm–i.

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