Beregkövesd Ghetto - '45 Aid Society

Members Boys and their families were imprisoned in the Beregkövesd Ghetto.

Beregkövesd Ghetto was one of a network of ghettos set up by Nazi Germany after it invaded in Hungary in March 1944.

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after the war for rest and rehabilitation.

^{The Carpathian Mountains in the 1930s.}

Beregkövesd is the Hungarian name for modern-day Kamianske Ukraine. It was occupied by Hungary in 1939, and in March 1944, Hungary was invaded by Germany.

To find out more about the story fo the Boys who lived in the Carpathians click here.

Ghettos in Hungary, and the regions of Czechoslovakia and Romania annexed to Hungary, functioned as transit camps prior to deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex.

Very little is known about the ghetto but the Jews imprisoned in it were deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in the late spring of 1944.

Hungarian Name:

Beregkövesd

Before September 1939:

Kivjažď, Czechoslovakia

1939 - 1945:

Hungary

Present Day:

Kamyanske, Ukraine

Period of Operation:

1944

Ghetto Population:

Unknown

Ghetto Liquidation:

1944

Death Camp Destination:

Auschwitz II-Birkenau

Jewish Resistance:

None recorded

Memorialisation:

The following members of the Boys have so far been identified as being in the ghetto:

Cervenka Ickovic
Etelka Ickovic

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