UNGVAR AND UNG MEGYE RESOURCES - JewishGen



AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF RESOURCES FOR RESEARCHING

UNGVAR AND UNG MEGYE

Compiled by Jordan Auslander, Vivian Kahn, and Pamela Weisberger

June 5, 2009

BOOKS AND ARTICLES

Braham, Randolph L., The Hungarian Jewish Catastrophe: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography, Institute for Holocaust Studies, City University of New York, 1984.

Braham, Randolph L., “The Destruction of the Jews of Carpatho-Ruthenia,” in Hungarian-Jewish Studies, Vol 1 of 3, World Federation of Hungarian Jews, New York 1966-73

Barkany, Eugen and Ludovit Dojc Zidovske Nabozenske Obce na Slovensku [Jewish Communities in Slovakia]; Bratislava 1991. Histories and descriptions of 184 Jewish Slovak communities in Slovak and Hungarian. Some pictures and sketches of synagogues, cemeteries and a few community leaders.

Saramanyova, Jana Cirkevné Matriky Na Slovensku Zo 16.-19. Storocia [Parish Registers in Slovakia From the 16th to 19th Century], Odbor Archivnictva Ministerstva Vnutra SR, Bratislava, 1991. Jewish records listed alphabetically in Avotaynu’s Jewish Vital Statistics Records in Slovakian Archives. FHL 943.73 K23

Csikvari, Antal Ungvár és Ung vármegye: Ungvár és Ung vármeghye községei [Ungvar and Ung County], 1940 (Columbia Graduate Library DK651.U9C85)

Dicker, Herman, Piety and Perseverance: Jews from the Carpathian Mountains, Sepher-Hermon Press, New York, 1981. A historical-cultural account of the Jewish communities of Carpatho-Ruthenis including Ungvar and Ung County.

Jews of Czechoslovakia, The, 3 vol., Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews, Philadelphia; Jewish Publication Society of America, New York, 1968-84

Jelinek, Yeshayahu A. “The Carpathian Diaspora”, Columbia University Press, New York 2007. A monograph on Jewish society and culture primarily 1848-1948.

Jelinek, Yeshayahu A. The Carpathian Diaspora: The Jews of Subcarpathian Rus' and Mukachevo, 1848-1948, Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center, 2007.

“Jews in Subcarpathian Rus”, Carpatho-Rusyn American, Vol. XVII, 1, 1994.

Kocsis Karoly and Eszter Kocsis-Hodosi, “The Hungarians of Transcarpathia”, Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin, from Ethnic Geography of the Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin, Geographical Research Institute Research Centre for Earth Sciences and Minority Studies Programme, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1998. Excerpts at

Lanyi Menyhert-Propperne Bekefi Hermin, Szlovenszkoi zsido hitkozsegei tortenete [History of the Jewish Communities of Slovakia]. Kassa, 1933. (In Hungarian)

Lebowitz-Stieglitz, Anita, Joy and the Sorrow: Jews of Ungvar-Uzhorod & Vincity: 1492-1944; Cyrano, Denver CO, 1996.

Miller, Olga K., Genealogical Research For Czech and Slovak Americans, Gale Research Co., Detroit, MI, 1978.

Olbracht, Ivan, The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karajich, A lyrical, deeply moving story of love and the pain of emancipation, set in the now vanished world of rural East European Jewish life. Hannah is the most beautiful girl in all Polana, an orthodox Jewish village in Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia. Involvement in the exciting new movement of Zionism takes her to a commune in a nearby town. She dreams of returning home and, when she does, is forced to choose between Ivo, an outspoken atheist, and her Jewish family, Central European University Press, 1999.

Olbracht, Ivan, Nikola the Outlaw, Set in the mountainous region of Ruthenia just after its annexation by Czechoslovakia after World War I, Ivan Olbracht's 1933 work tells the story of the Greek Orthodox peasants who share the province with a merchant class of Jews. Nikola, one of the peasants, gains his fame by robbing travelers and distributing the proceeds to the poor. When the authorities and Jewish merchants offer a reward for Nikola's capture, some of Nikola's gang conspire against him for the prize money. Northwestern University Press, 2001.

Olbracht, Ivan, Golet v údolí [Diaspora in the Valley] Three short stories about 1930’s Jewish life in Subcarpathian Ruthenia including “The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karajich”. Originally published in Czech in 1937. Translated into Hebrew.

Patai, Raphael, The Jews of Hungary: History, Culture, Psychology, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1996.

Perlman, Robert, Bridging Three Worlds: Hungarian-Jewish Americans 1848-1914, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA, 1991.

Sagvari, Dr. Agnes, “The Holocaust in Carpatho-Ruthenia”, .

Schlyter, Daniel, Handbook of Czechoslovak Research, Genun Publishers, Buffalo Grove, IL, 1985.

Wellauer, Maralyn A, Tracing Your Czech & Slovak Roots, self-published, Milwaukee, WI, 1980.

GAZETTEERS & MAPS

Auslander, Jordan, Genealogical Gazetteer for the Kingdom of Hungary, Avotaynu, Bergenfield NJ 2005

Dvorzsák, János Magyarország helységnévtára tekintettel a közigazgatási, népességi és hitfelekezeti viszonyokra [Locality dictionary of Hungary with reference to the political and ecclesiastical classifications of the population] Budapest, 1877.

Eckschmidt, Kata; Szilvia Eckschmidt, Andrea Fodor, Zsuzsa Gebry, Zsolt Kovát and József Sziládi, Zsolt Kárpátalja térképe, Budapest, Hungary, Dimap Bt. 2000, 2003. Multi-lingual 1:250,000 map and gazetteer of Subcarpathian region. Dimap (dimap.hu) has excellent maps for East and Central European regions as well.

Hátsek Ignácz, A Magyar Szent Korona Országainak Megyei Térképei, Plate XXXIV, Ung Megye

Lelkes, György, Magyar Helysegnev-Azonosito Szotar, Talma Könyvkaidó, Baja, Hungary, 1992 &1998 eds. The most comprehensive listing of present and former Hungarian towns with county and district, not most settlements, their current name and country. County level maps but without contemporary borders

Mokotoff, Gary and Sallyann Amdur Sack with Alexander Sharon. Where Once We Walked (Revised Edition). Bergenfield, N.J.: Avotaynu, 2002. Present and former names of Central and Eastern European towns with pre-WWII Jewish populations of 10 or more.

Sebók, László, Magyar Neve? - Hatarokon tuli magyar helysegnevszotar, Hungary, Arany Lapok 1990. Lists current and past Hungarian Kinghom localities that included parts (or all) of Austria, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, and Romania. Place names for these countries are alphabetized as well as their Hungarian equivalent.

Spezialkarte der Österrreichisch-Ungarishen Monarchie, K.uK. Militärigeographisches Institut. Vienna, 1877–1914. Austro-Hungarian 1:75000 map series available at the New York Public Library’s Map Division.

Zentai, Dr László editor, Kósa, Pál, et al; A Történelmi Magyaroszág Atlasza és Adattára 1914, Talma Kaidó, Pécs 2001. Old and new name gazetteer, demographic and statistical 1910 census data for the Kingdom of Hungary at its zenith; 1:200,000 sectional maps of 1914 Hungary but no current frame of reference.

OTHER INTERNET RESOURCES

Archives of Ukraine: The State Committee on Archives of Ukraine Official Website News about archives, archival legislation, databases (in Ukrainian), archive addresses , regulations and other information including guide to conducting genealogical research at .

Bill Tarkulich's Eastern Slovakia (Východoslovenský) & Environs Genealogy Research Strategies Assistance to English-speaking researchers of Eastern Slovakia immigrants. This collection also provides a contemporary and historical perspective of the region through essays, documents and photographs. Focus is on Eastern Slovakia (Slovak Republic) / formerly Czechoslovakia / formerly Upper Hungary. Primary research areas include the peoples and lands in the Carpathian mountains and immediate borderlands of Southern Poland (Galicia) and Western Ukraine (Carpatho-Rus).

Ungvar Pictures and history of Ungvar (Hungarian text)

TRAVEL

Watson, Ian, editor, Let’s Go!: A Budget Guide To Europe, St Martin's Press, New York, annual

Gruber, Ruth E., Jewish Heritage Travel, John E. Wiley & Sons, New York, 1992

Russia, Ukraine & Belarus, Lonely Planet Travel Publications, Footscray, Australia, annual

FILMS

“A Man from Munkacs”, Yale Strom’s film explores the symbiotic relationship between the Rom and Jews who lived together in the Carpathian region before and after World War Two. Prior to the Holocaust, the Klezmer musicians at Jewish celebration were frequently not Jews but Rom, some of whom spoke Yiddish fluently. The film examines how the Rom saved Jewish folk music until it could be returned to the Jews, allowing the rebirth of Jewish music in Hungary. It features Feri Jakubowicz, the first Jewish child born in Munkacs after the Shoah, who became friends with Gyula Galombosi, a Rom virtuoso violinist. Feri went on to establish The Budapest Klezmer Band, the first Hungarian klezmer band since the 1920’s, and taught them the tunes he learned from Galambosi.

“Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years”, a film by Yale Strom about Zev Godinger, a Jewish resident of Beregovo, who has a special friendship with his Rom (Gypsy) neighbors. In 1931 the Jewish community of the Carpathian region (then in Czechoslovakia, today Ukraine) numbered a quarter of a million Jews. Today sixty-five years later there are fewer than 1,500. The film documents his first journey to his home town of Vinogradov since his deportation to Auschwitz in 1944. Zev's experiences and unique insights are representative of the rich Jewish culture that once thrived in the Carpathian Mountains.

“She Was There and She Told Me”—The Story of Hanna Bar Yesha”, follows the experiences of a 12-year-old girl who, in the summer of 1944, was deported to Auschwitz with her extended family. This unique and moving film also describes Hanna’s childhood in the city of Ungvar, Carpathian Ruthenia, her emigration to Israel and her efforts to establish a family.

March of Time Outtakes, Prewar Hungarian Jewish Life in Ruthenia, Story RG-60.4582, Tape 2837 Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive at USHMM (s)%3A+GYPSIES%2C+Public+Domain%3A+Yes%2C+Digitized%3A+Yes&cache_file=uia_uaPFkG&total_recs=14&page_len=25&page=1&rec=14&file_num=39

“Hanele” (2000), a Czech film based on Ivan Olbracht’s short story “The Sad Eyes of Hana Karadzicova”

“Golet v udoli” (1995) Desecration of the mikvah disrupts the sex life of a 1930s Jewish village in Ukraine (then part of Czechoslovakia). Based on Ivan Olbracht’s 1937 short story “Event in the Mikva”, this Czech-language film also deals with the clash of communal traditions and modernity among Orthodox Jews in Subcarpathian Rus’ between the wars.

”Memoirs of a River”, Judith Elek’s Hungarian-language film about the Tiszaeszlar blood libel case in which a group of Jewish men were charged with the murder of a 14-year old Christian peasant girl. The case was heard in Nyiregyhaza where the accused were defended by Károly Eötvös, journalist and member of the House of Deputies. Although the incident that inspired the film occurred in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg megye, the depiction of life in a small settlement by the banks of the Tisza near the end of the 19th century is relevant to the experience in similar small communities in Ung megye.

NEWSLETTERS

Czechoslovak Genealogical Society, includes Silesian, Hungarian, Ruthenian and Jewish interests, $15.00 annual membership. PO Box 16225, St Paul, MN 55116

Carpatho-Rusyn American, a Carpatho-Rusyn ethnic forum, $12 annual membership, 132 Hawthorne St, Pittsburgh, PA 15218

Carpatho-Rusyn Society, 125 Westland Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15217-2538, $20 annual membership,; publication: The New Rusyn Times, back issues $2 ea.

The Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center, Inc., write for publication list, 355 Delano Pl, Fairview, NJ 07022

Slovakian Family History Society, their Journal is written in Slovakian, with brief English resumes in the back. Join by writing to: Slovak GHS at Matrica Slovenska, Novomeskeho 32, 036 52 Martin, Slovakia.

RECORDS

A kassai csendörkerület jegyzékei a deportált zsidók ingóságairól a települések ABC rendjében 1944.[Records of the 8th Gendarmerie District, Kassa, Hungary, 1944-1945] (MOL Z 936, USHMM Archives: RG-39.005M) Original documents of this collection are in the custody of the National Archives of Hungary (Magyar Országos Levéltár) in Budapest as Collection MOL Z 936. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilmed collection via the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in November 2006. This collection contains records of the confiscation process, shipping, handling, storing, inventorying, and distribution of valuables which had belonged to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust who were chiefly, but not exclusively, residents of the region referred to by wartime Hungarian authorities as the '8th Gendarmerie District.' Many of the towns and other localities once within this District are no longer under Hungarian jurisdiction, but are instead found within current-day Slovakia or Ukraine, and many of the 'hungarianized' town names used in this collection are now different. (Note: An interactive map showing the wartime Hungarian gendarmerie districts, including District VIII (Kassa) which this collection concerns, can be viewed on the Internet at as part of the website of the National Committee for Attending Deportees (Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottság - DEGOB) at .

Conscriptio Judaerum, 1848 [Jewish Census 1848] Searchable index of names of household members from Ungvar and communities in Ung megye included in JewishGen All Hungary Database

FHL International Film 719826

Deportation list of Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia including Perecseny, Szerednye, Szobranc, Tiba, Nagyberezna, (177 names), 1941. File Number 10963, Archive of origin: Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, Hungary Yad Vashem Shoah-Related Lists Database, Item Number 5563212

Jewish birth records 1762-1865, Szobranc jaras, Ung megye, Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, Hungary, Film # A5583 (Index will be included in JewishGen All Hungary Database)

List of Jews from Ungvar (1,867 names), 1944. Record Group M.33 - Records of the Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory, File Numbers JM/21201, JM/21199, JM/21201, Archive of origin

GOSUDARSTVENNY ARKHIV ROSSIYSKOY FEDERATSII - RUSSIA, MOSKVA

Yad Vashem Shoah-Related Lists Database Item Number 5749815

Lists of survivors returning to Uzhgorod from various camps (1700 names), 1945. Record Group M.52 - Documentation from Regional Archives in the Ukraine, File Number

572, Archive of origin: GOSUDARSTVENNY ARKHIV ZAKARPATSKOY OBLASTI UKRAINE, BEREGOVO. Yad Vashem Shoah-Related Lists Database, Item Number

5568714

Urbéri tabellák, 1715-1720, 1767-1773, Budapest : Magyar Országos Levéltár, 1972. Feudal land tenancy census records of Hungary, the so-called "Urbarium" or "Urbéri tabellák", a document that defines the goods and services that a serf was obligated to give to the feudal lord. Includes names of landowners and serfs. Arranged by counties, and within the counties by villages in alphabetical order. Includes primarily the years 1767-1773, with some entries and the index covering the years 1723-1848. Some areas that were in Hungary when these records were kept are now in Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine. Microfilm.

Общественные документы, 1854-1938. Public records (lists of citizens and homeowners, lists of voters and students, census tables, miscellaneous documents) for multiple locations in Munkács, Bereg, Hungary; later Mukačevo, Podkarpatská Rus, Czechoslovakia; now Mukacheve, Zakarpatti︠a︡, Ukraine. Text in Russian and Ukrainian. FHL Intl. Film 24110444, 2415423 (Note: All of the records on these two films are from Uzhorod. Most are 1938 voter lists arranged by street address including name, birthdate, and occupation of voters.)

Vagyonösszeírás, 1828, Ung Megye. Census of the taxable population of Hungary, 1828. Includes references to the financial situation, including descriptions of lands and properties. 642 Jewish records from Ung are included in the All Hungary Database. FHL Intl. Film 623166, 623167, 623168

YIZKOR BOOKS:

Buchler, Yehoshua Robert and Ruth Shachak, Pinkas Hakehilot: Slovakia [Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities], Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 2003.

Dinur, Dov, Shoat Yehude Rusyah ha-Karpatit-Uz'horod, 1983. (Hebrew)

Spiegel, Yehuda, “Ungvar”, Arim veimahot beYisrael: Matsevat Kodesh likehilot Yisrael shenehervu btutede aritseim utemeium beMihemet haOlam haAharonah Arukh Biyed aritzim u-temeim bemichemet haolan haachronah [Cities and Mothers in Israel, A Holy Monument to the Communities of Israel Destroyed by the Unholy Tyrants in the Last World War] Vol. 4, Fishman, Y.L. ha-Kohen, editor, Mosad haRav Kook, Jerusalem, 1950 (Hebrew)

Spiegel, Yehuda Yehudit Ungvar-Uzhorod, Behotzat Hamachber, Tel Aviv, 1993 (Hebrew)

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