Nagy Ferenc: A nyíregyházi zsidóság pusztulása. Forrásközlés - A Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Megyei Levéltár Kiadványai II. Közlemények 33. (Nyíregyháza, 2004)

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ple into ghettos increased the number of people living there up to seventeen thousand. The realization of the originál Schedule - the deportation of the people from the ghettos to reception camps - was hastened by incredible crowdedness, too. The majority of the Jewish people of Nyíregyháza were taken to Harangod puszta, but there were somé of them in Nyírjes Tanya and Varjúlapos, as well. The evacuation of the reception camps started on 14 May and finished on 4 June. The destination through Kassa was Auschwitz II. Birkenau. Only 600-800 of the five thousand Jewish people from Nyíregyháza survived the hell of death camps. The second part of the source book publishes archivál records related to the subject from the rich sources of the Archives of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. A bigger part of the source-material from the period between 1939 and 1945 got into the volume in digitised version quite identically with the originál version. The remaining part is in transcript as the originál documents were unsuitable for copying. The selected sources illustrate the period that we call the social, economic and political impossibility of performance of the Jews. Its stages are the so-called anti-Jewish laws. Unfortunately, they alsó demonstrate the public feeling which lacked sympathy and a helpful intention towards the slandered, outraged and robbed fellow-citizens was rarely felt. The third structural unit of the volume contains the Üst of the Jews of Nyíregyháza. Mayor Pál Nyíregyházi (Szohor) ordered the registration of the Jewish people living in the town on 11 April 1944. The üst - made by the religious community - contains 4753 names. The register which is kept in the archives is the contemporary carbon copy of the originál Üst. Several parts of it are damaged, dim and difficult to read. In the case of the originally incorrectly written names the registers of births helped with the correction. (The square brackets mark these corrections.) Today it is impossible to establish whether the registration took place on the basis of identity papers or verbal communication. There were people who were recorded twice and there were somé people who were registered by their nicknames instead of their given names. Many people with identical names could be distinguished only on the basis of their mothers' names, but in the case of old widows the census-takers often used only the husbands' names not the maidén names. Therefore there might be mistakes or errors in the corrected and checked register, too. The archivál records available can not help us to correct these mistakes any more. However, we think that the published Üst - containing even mistakes - modestly commemorates the people of Nyíregyháza who were the innocent victims of a barbarous and homicidal period.