JEWISH MONUMENTS IN SÁTORALJAÚJHELY
The Holocaust Memorial plaque
(Novy Mesto) small station, Slovakia

“In the spring of 1944, 15,000 Jews living in the region of Zemplén were relocated to the newly built ghetto in Sátoraljaújhely.” 3,439 people, the first “transport,” were loaded into freight cars on May 16. The second “transport,” numbering 3,290 people, set off on May 22 and the third, with 3,320 people, on May 25. The last group, which included people who were elderly and ill, departed on June 2. The groups arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau through the gate with the now infamous words: “Arbeit macht frei,” or “work makes one free.”

The murderous ideology led to the extermination of the vast majority of those who had been deported.
The memorial plaque placed by Platform 1 of the small station in Sátoraljaújhely reminds us of the horrors of the Holocaust. The plaque was put up by the Local Government of Sátoraljaújhely in 2014, the 70th anniversary of the start of massive deportations of Jews from Hungary and thus the “Holocaust Memorial Year” in Hungary.

Source:

• Dr. Csaba Csorba: Sátoraljaújhely zsidóságának története [A History of the Jewry of Sátoraljaújhely]

JEWISH MONUMENTS IN SÁTORALJAÚJHELY
The Holocaust Memorial plaque
(Novy Mesto) small station, Slovakia

“In the spring of 1944, 15,000 Jews living in the region of Zemplén were relocated to the newly built ghetto in Sátoraljaújhely.” 3,439 people, the first “transport,” were loaded into freight cars on May 16. The second “transport,” numbering 3,290 people, set off on May 22 and the third, with 3,320 people, on May 25. The last group, which included people who were elderly and ill, departed on June 2. The groups arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau through the gate with the now infamous words: “Arbeit macht frei,” or “work makes one free.”

The murderous ideology led to the extermination of the vast majority of those who had been deported.
The memorial plaque placed by Platform 1 of the small station in Sátoraljaújhely reminds us of the horrors of the Holocaust. The plaque was put up by the Local Government of Sátoraljaújhely in 2014, the 70th anniversary of the start of massive deportations of Jews from Hungary and thus the “Holocaust Memorial Year” in Hungary.

Source:

• Dr. Csaba Csorba: Sátoraljaújhely zsidóságának története [A History of the Jewry of Sátoraljaújhely]