On June 21, at the Small Synagogue in Beregovo, a monument to residents Transcarpathia – the victims of the Holocaust was unveiled. The ceremony was attended by the Mayor Zoltan Babyak, the Consul of the Consulate of Hungary in Beregovo Endre Szalipszki, the Hungarian government commissioner in Transcarpathia Istvan Hrezha and other distinguished guests, the Mukachevo.net informs.
The chairman of the charitable public organization "Shalom Foundation" Josef Weiss, an American businessman, a native of Beregovo, told how in May 1944, the tragic events took place in the city – more than 10,000 Jews were deported to Nazi concentration camps, most of them were killed.
Overall, during the deportations that started in the spring of 1944, officially 85 thousand, and according to some sources, about 100 thousand Jews were deported from Transcarpathia to concentration camps.
Thus, this memorial is a memory of the Holocaust victims. The monument was made by Transcarpathian sculptor Mykhailo Kolodko. Names of almost four thousand victims, including relatives of Jozsef Weiss, are engraved on the marble stele.
Photos by Oleksandr Voloshin
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