The idea to gather information about the Jewish community in Edelény before 1944 was born from the desire to honor first the memory of the grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who were murdered in the extermination camps, and second to honor our mothers and fathers whose memories and tales of Edelény kept this shtetl and the relatives we couldn't know, alive in our imagination.

In the family histories we have recorded what we remember about our fathers and mothers recounting their growing up in Edelény. Their childhood memories became also ours, albeit incomplete and sketchy. And so, like all remembrances, each one may bear the differences that each individual memory captured.

1998 map of Edelény

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