# Balassagyarmat <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">יאַרמיט</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Balassagyarmat (Hungarian), Balážske Ďarmoty (Slovak), Yarmit (Yiddish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Nógrád County (historic county seat), Balassagyarmat District, Northern Hungary</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>48.0786 19.2940</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>to 1918/1920</td><td>Balassagyarmat</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary / Austria-Hungary</td></tr> <tr><td>1920–1945</td><td>Balassagyarmat</td><td>Hungary (interwar & WWII); deported to Auschwitz mid-June 1944</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–present</td><td>Balassagyarmat</td><td>Hungary</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Jews settled in Balassagyarmat (Yiddish: Yarmit) from the late 17th century, and from the mid-18th century the town hosted a renowned yeshiva and became one of Hungary's most significant Orthodox Jewish centers, organizing formally as Orthodox in 1868 and building one of the largest Orthodox synagogues in Eastern Europe under the prominent Deutsch rabbinic dynasty. The Jewish population peaked at about 2,401 (21.1% of the town) in 1920. During the Holocaust the Jews were rounded up in early May 1944, concentrated in ghettos, and deported to Auschwitz in mid-June 1944, destroying the community. <small>Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balassagyarmat, https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/balassagyarmat, https://cdp.jewishgen.org/eastern-europe/hungary/ballasagyarmet</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Yitel Héber (b.1876)]] | Born 12/14/1876, Died 02/17/1940 | | [[Yaakov Yehoshua Rübner (b.1900)]] | Born 12/08/1900 | | [[Hinda Rübner (b.1904)]] | Born 01/13/1904 | | [[Vilmos Rübner (b.1905)]] | Born 1905, Died 1921 | | [[Anna Rübner (b.1906)]] | Born 1906 | | [[Ármin Rubner (b.1911)]] | Born 03/05/1911 | | [[Menachem Zvi Rübner (b.1862)]] | Died 09/02/1926 | | [[Roza Rübner (b.1909)]] | Died 1931 |