In 1940, many Jews were sent to do forced labour in "labour battalions". After the Germans occupied Hungary in March 1944, the remaining Jews of Bekescsaba were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in occupied Poland, which they reached on 29 June 1944. After the war, 60 survivors from Auschwitz and some 240 from forced labour camps returned to the town.
Bekescsaba, Hungary
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