Aranyosapáti is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. János J. Pataki, the paternal grandfather of former governor of the State of New York, George Pataki, was from Aranyosapáti.
Aranyosapáti was established in 1950 after the unification of two villages: Kopócsapáti and Révaranyos. Jews lived in both villagesCensus of Hungarian Jews, 1993Census of Hungarian Jews, 1993 until they were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.Documentation of the Révaranyos's Jews murdered in the HolocaustDocumentation of the Kopócsapáti's Jews murdered in the Holocaust
Geography It covers an area of and has a population of 2047 people (2015).
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