Újfehértó

Újfehértó
Town hall
Flag Coat of arms
Újfehértó Location in Hungary
Coordinates: 47°47′56″N 21°41′00″E
Country	Hungary
County	Szabolcs–Szatmár–Bereg
Area
• Total	140.88 km2 (54.39 sq mi)
Population  (2005)
• Total	13,611
• Density	96.614/km2 (250.23/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	4244
Area code	42
Website	http://www.ujfeherto.hu/

Újfehértó (Yiddish: ראַצפֿערט, romanized: Ratsfert, German: Ratzfert) is a small town in Szabolcs–Szatmár–Bereg County in the Northern Great Plain of eastern Hungary.

History

By 1920, the Jewish population had reached 1303 people, 11% of the total population. On 17 May 1944, the 400 Jewish families living in the village were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camps via Nyirjes (now Brezov in Slovakia) and Sima.

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Hungary

Újfehértó is twinned with:

• Braniștea, Romania
• Cherechiu, Romania
• Doberdò del Lago, Italy
• Hut, Ukraine
• Váhovce, Slovakia
• Żarów, Poland

Notable people

This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

• András Toma (1925–2004), probably the last prisoner of war (1945–2000) from World War II to be repatriated
• Erika Marozsán (born 1972), actress
• János Marozsán (born in 1965), footballer
• Péter Gábor (1906–1993), politician and secret police leader in the Hungarian People's Republic
• Teitelbaum family of rebbes of the Satmar dynasty in Hasidic Judaism (see Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar))
• Ferenc Zaijti (1886–1961): Painter, representative of Hungarian Turanist Orientalism, and curator of Oriental studies at what is now the Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library

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See also

• Satmar
• Klausenburg (Hasidic dynasty)
• Nagykálló

External links

• Újfehértó - ShtetLink