Mizhhirya (Ökörmező), Ukraine Holocaust

Mizhhirya Holocaust

In the Spring of 1939, the Hungarians occupied Ökörmező / Volové and in 1940-41 drafted a great number of the Jews into their slave labor battalions; some were sent to the eastern front, where most perished. By late Summer 1941, any Jewish families without Hungarian citizenship were expelled to Nazi-occupied Ukraine where they were murdered. As told by Rita (née SCHNEIDER) POLLACK, a survivor from Ökörmező / Volové:

"It was on April 16, 1944, the Jews of Ökörmező / Volové were picked up by the Gestapo, including my SCHNEIDER family. We were the third family to be picked up by truck on April 16, the day after Passover ended, at seven in the morning. The Gestapo took all of us to the synagogue in Ökörmező / Volové where we were locked up inside for three days. Afterwards, the Gestapo loaded everyone into trucks and we were all transported to the ghetto in Szekernice. Before we arrived in Szekernice, the Gestapo had cleared the village of all non-Jews to make a ghetto. We were put into rooms at the ghetto, 30 people to a room. After being interned at Szekernice for about three weeks, we were made to walk to the next town where they forced us into cattle cars, eighty people to a car, that transported us to Auschwitz concentration camp. We arrived at Auschwitz on the 19th of May, after spending about 10 days on the train."

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NOTE: Mizhhirya was located in the Gendarmerie District VIII (Kassa). Ghettoization of the countryside Jews to the larger towns occurred 16-28 April 1944; deportations to the Auschwitz concentration camp occurred between 15 May and 7 June 1944. The 1944 Kassa list of Death Trains details the number of Jews deported and the stations of departure. (Kassa is present-day Košice, Slovakia.)

Volové memorial plaque on Mount Zion, Jerusalem, Israel
Photo: Courtesy of Jack EISNER, Thailand

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~ Mizhhirya Holocaust Deportations ~

Following is a list of the Jewish individuals that lived in Mizhhirya in April, 1944 until being trucked to the Szekernice Ghetto, where they remained for about three weeks, prior to being transported to Auschwitz.

The names below are from the Nevek deportation lists.

Source: The Nevek Deportation List database at the NEVEKLARSFELD web site.

Disclaimer: The following names were found searching the NEVEKLARSFELD web site for individuals listed as living in or born in Ökörmező/Mizhhirya. Unfortunately, for reasons unknown, the list is incomplete.

If your family member is not listed below, see the Yad Vashem Archives - Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names, a more complete database of names.

NAME	DOB	NAME	DOB	NAME	DOB	NAME	DOB
DAVIDOVICS, HENJA	1924	HOROVITZ, HELEN	1927	POPPER, ROZA	1918	WEINGARTEN, EDITH	1926
DAVIDOVICS, ROZI	1922	ICKOVICS, MATYASNE	1909	ROSENFELD, BERTA	1928	WEISER, FANNY	1918
DAVIDOVICS, SARA	1923	KLEIN, UNKNOWN	1906	ROSENTHAL, MARIA	1925	WEISER, SAROLTA	1920
DAVIDOVICS, SARA	1928	KLEIN, MARGIT	1924	ROSENTHAL, ROZSI	1927	WEISZ, LILI	1915
DAVIDOVITS, SARA	1908	KLEIN, DORA	1925	ROSENTHAL, REGINA	1930	WEISZ, ARONNE	1919
DICKER, FANI	1928	KLEIN, ROZA	1927	ROSENTHAL, REGINA	1906	WEISZ, SZABINA	1928
DREHER, FANNI	1928	LAX, MARGIT	1916	ROSENTHAL, IZIDORNE	1909	WEISZ, SARI	1914
EISNER, MARGIT	1918	LAX, ROZSI	1921	SAFAR, ROZSI	1924	ZISZOVICS, LUJZA	1928
FIXLER, HELENA	1922	LAX, FRIDA	1922	SAFAR, ABRAHAMNE	1904	ZISZOVICS, EIZIKNE	1904
FIXLER, ROZALIA	1924	LAX, FRIDA	1924	SCHNEIDER, ARANKA	1923	ZISZOVICS, HEDVIG	1925
GOLDBERG, BERNATNE	1914	LAX, HELENA	1919	SCHNEIDER, ADOLFNE	1905	ZISZOVICS, ETEL	1916
GOLDBERG, HELEN	1922	LEBOVITS, REGINA	1924	SCHNEIDER, FRANCISKA	1921	ZISZOVITS, SARA	1924
GRUN, JOLAN	1915	LEBOVITS, REGINA	1924	SCHNEIDER, ROZSI	1926	ZOLDAN, REGINA	1928
HEIMOVICS, FERENCNE	1916	MECHLOVICS, HELEN	1926	STEINBERG, HELENA	1915
HOFFMAN, CECILIA	1927	MECHLOVICS, SZIDI	1925	STEINBERG, JOLAN	1917
HOFFMANN, ANTALNE	1908	NEUMANN, TOVA	1923	STROBEL, BERTA	1927
HOFFMANN, ERZSEBET	1927	NEUMANN, MALVIN	1920	STROBEL, LENKE	1922
HOFFMANN, ROZA	1923	NEUMANN, ARANKA	1924	STRULOVICS, RUHEL	1927
HOROVITZ, ROZSA	1925	NEUMANN, PINHASZNE	1906	WEINGARTEN, ESZTER	1919
HOROVITZ, LILI	1925	NEUMANN, FANI	1924	WEINGARTEN, EVA	1925

~ Mizhhirya Survivors ~

Below are links to personal stories by survivors of the Holocaust from Mizhhirya. If you have a personal story to share by a survivor of the Holocaust from Mizhhirya, click HERE to contact me.
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Testimony of Marton ADLER (b. 14 September 1929, Volové) This is an interview which chronicles his life and spans multiple web pages which you can read and/or listen to.

Updated: 22 August 2020
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Created by: Marshall J. KATZ, USA Compiled by: Amos Israel ZEZMER, France with assistance from the following JewishGen members/descendants and contributors of Mizhhirya Jewish families: Marton ADLER, USA Jack EISNER, Thailand Rita (née SCHNEIDER) POLLACK, USA Amos Israel ZEZMER, France
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