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Stropkov, Slovak
Republic
General Information
Until the
Holocaust, Jews, who made up about half of Stropkov, owned
most of the stores in town, dealing in groceries,
fabrics, salt,
lumber and building materials. Jews
were also farmers, tavern keepers, bankers,
teachers, lawyers, butchers,
bakers, leatherworkers, metalworkers,
shoemakers, seamstresses, tailors, and
cobblers . But for all their
efforts, most lived
in poverty. Even into the twentieth century, few
Jewish Stropkovers
had running water, ice boxes, telephones,
or radios.
But they enjoyed a spiritually rewarding
way of life.
Shtetl Variant
name: Stropko (Hungarian)
Administrative
District:
Location
- Latitude 49° 12' N,
Longitude 21° 39' E
- c. 20 miles NE of Prešov (Eperjes)
- c. 40 miles NE
of Kosice
(Kassa)
- c. 220 miles ENE of
Bratislava (Pressburg)
Maps
- View current map of Stropkov via Google Maps
- View 1882
Map of Stropkov
Dateline
1867:
1914-1918: During
World War One,
1918:
1938: The
Slovakian government adopts anti-Semitic economic
and social measures.
1939:
August
1944: Slovak
National Uprising defeated.
October
1944: German
Occupation of
1945: Slovakian
Liberation by the
1991: "Velvet
Revolution" creates the
Dateline
Jewish Stropkov
c. 1650: Jews arrive in Stropkov, possibly fleeing Polish pogroms.
c. 1700: Jews are
exiled from Stropkov
to Tisinec, a
village just north, where they establish the Tisinec Jewish Cemetery.
c. 1800: Jews
return to Stropkov.
c. 1800-1942: "Mother"
Stropkov,
the largest Jewish congregation in the
area, shares her religious facilities
(synagogues, burial societies, kosher butchers,
rabbinical court, mikveh,
and school system) with Jews in nearby
"daughter"
villages.
1892: Jews
dedicate the
Stropkov Jewish Cemetery, discontinuing burials in Tisinec.
1939: The
anti-Semitic Hlinka
Party controls the Stropkov Town
Council.
1942: Jews of
Stropkov-area number
c. 2000 souls.
May-October
1942: Hlinka deports Stropkov-area
Jews to
October 1944:
Countrywide Deportations resume.
November
1944: Russian
Forces liberate Stropkov.
c. 100 Stropkover
Jews survive.
Visit Stropkov, sixty years
later
Research
Links and Databases
Explore Jewish Life in Stropkov:
Explore Stropkov in Holocaust Resources:
Their
Names, Their Fate-- listing Jewish Stropkovers 1942-45: those
who perished, those who survived
excerpted
from Amsel, Melody, Between
Galicia and Hungary: The Jews of Stropkov, (
Yad Vashem Shoah Names
Database
JewishGen Holocaust
Global Registry
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References:
Amsel, Melody, Between
Weinstein, Avraham Avish, Seyfer Zichron Stropkov,
(
"Genealogical Adventure," M. Amsel, Avotaynu, The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, Number 4, Winter 1997.
"Researching Holocaust Victims from a
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