Újfehértó (, ) 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
Újfehértó is twinned with:
Braniștea, Romania Cherechiu, Romania Doberdò del Lago, Italy Hut, Ukraine Váhovce, Slovakia Żarów, Poland
Notable people
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
Gallery
See also Satmar Klausenburg (Hasidic dynasty) Nagykálló
References
External links Újfehértó - ShtetLink