Barabás

For other uses, see Barabas (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Barabbas.

Barabás is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.

Barabás
Coat of arms
Barabás Location of Barabás in Hungary
Coordinates: 48.23°N 22.43°E / 48.23; 22.43
Country	Hungary
Region	Northern Great Plain
County	Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
Area [1]
• Total	38.19 km2 (14.75 sq mi)
Population  (2012)[2]
• Total	746
• Density	19.5/km2 (50.6/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	4397
Area code	+36 45
Website	https://barabas.hu/

Jews settled in Barabás in the middle of the 19th century.^[3] The synagogue of the Orthodox community was built in 1910. There is a Jewish cemetery on the site.^[4]

In 1944, after the German occupation, all the Jews of the village were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp;^[5] only two of them survived after the war.^[6]

Geography

It covers an area of 38.19 km² (15 sq mi) and has a population of 855 people (2001).