Balsa, Hungary

Place in Hungary
Place in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, Hungary
48°11′N 21°33′E / 48.183°N 21.550°E / 48.183; 21.550Country HungaryCountySzabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg CountyPopulation
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Balsa is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, a small Jewish community lived in the village, in 1880 100 Jews lived in the village,[1] most of whom were murdered in the Holocaust.[2] The community had a Jewish cemetery.[3]

References

  1. ^ Hungarian Jewish census
  2. ^ Documentation of the village's Jews murdered in the Holocaust
  3. ^ Balsa Jewish cemetery
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