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

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The Destruction of the Jewish People in Nyíregyháza (Summary) The sourcebook published for the 60th anniversary of the Holocaust is divided into three structural units. The preliminary study gives the short outline of the establishment of the Jewish people in Hungary. The study follows the settlement and the growth of the Jewish population in the three historical counties: Szabolcs, Szatmár and Bereg from the end of the reign of the Turkish until their deportation. The fate of the Jewish people in Nyíregyháza is followed from 1840. The first Jew settling down in the town was Jakab Fried, who came to Nyíregyháza from Tokaj. Eight years later there were 71 people living in the town and their number was incredibly increasing due to the waves of immigration. Over thirty years their number grew twenty-nine times bigger. In 1880 there were 2053 people living in the town and their number was proportionally increasing with the population of the growing town, averagely until 1944 they gave 8-10 percent of the totál population. Two religious tendencies appeared in the town, too: the orthodox and the status quo. The latter calls itself „status quo neológ". Using this phrase its followers wanted to indicate that most of the Jewish people in Nyíregyháza tended to assimilate, tried to adapt themselves to the local society and declared themselves Hungárián. By the beginning of the twentieth century the two tendencies separated from each other institutionally, only the elementary school and the 'Szentegylet' were maintained collectively. Although the town during the mentioned period was explicitly considered as an agricultural territory, the Jewish people living here did not make any effort to acquire land. Most of them were engaged in trade and industry. In somé commercial branches they nearly managed to gain monopoly as almost thirty percent of the units of trade belonged to them. The realization of the anti-Jewish laws resulted in the economic and political impossibility of performance of the Jewish people in Nyíregyháza, too. As a result twenty-five committee members - who were elected or gained their membership by right of their being the greatest tax-payers of the community - were expelled from the municipal Corporation. The imprisoning of the Jewish people in Nyíregyháza into ghettos took place on 23 April in 1944. Until then there were only provinciai Jewish people in the ghettos marked out in the middle of the town. The imprisoning of almost five thousand peo-