# Bilaszovica <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Bilasovytsia / Біласовиця (Ukrainian); Bilaszovica / Bagolyháza (Hungarian)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Bilasovytsia, Mukachevo Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine (historic Bereg County; Volovets area)</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>48°50′N 23°04′E</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</td><td>Bilaszovica / Bagolyháza</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary, Bereg County (Austria-Hungary from 1867)</td></tr> <tr><td>1919–1938</td><td>Bilasovica</td><td>Czechoslovakia (Subcarpathian Rus')</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1944</td><td>Bagolyháza</td><td>Hungary (re-annexed March 1939)</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–1991</td><td>Bilasovytsia</td><td>Soviet Union — Ukrainian SSR (Zakarpattia Oblast)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Bilasovytsia</td><td>Ukraine — Zakarpattia Oblast, Mukachevo Raion</td></tr> </table> ## Overview **Bilaszovica** is the Hungarian-era spelling of **Bilasovytsia** (Ukrainian *Біласовиця*; Hungarian official name from 1904 *Bagolyháza*), a small mountain village in Carpathian Ruthenia (Transcarpathia), western Ukraine, in the Volovets area of the historic Bereg County. It is a tiny settlement (about 500 residents, elevation ~590 m). Like the other villages of the Volovets/Bereg highlands, it belonged to Hungary before 1918, to Czechoslovakia between the wars, was re-annexed by Hungary in 1939, and became Soviet Ukraine in 1945. Its handful of Jewish families shared the fate of Transcarpathian Jewry: some non-citizens were expelled toward Nazi-occupied Ukraine in 1941, and the remainder were deported to **Auschwitz** in May 1944 in the mass deportation of Carpathian-Ruthenia Jews. This is a genuinely obscure locality; no dedicated Jewish-community history was located, and the account above rests on region-level (Bereg/Volovets, Carpathian Ruthenia) documentation. <small>Sources: JewishGen Sub-Carpathia town list (Bilasovycja = Bagolyháza, Bereg, Volovec'); Wikipedia — "History of the Jews in Carpathian Ruthenia"; Mapcarta — Bilasovytsia village.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Frimeth Weiser (b.1874)]] | Born 1874 | | [[Taube Apfeldorfer (b.1901)]] | Born 1901 | | [[Eli Moshe Apfeldorfer (b.1934)]] | Born 1934 | | [[Eliezer Apfeldorfer (b.1936)]] | Born 1936 | | [[Dov Apfeldorfer (b.1938)]] | Born 1938 | | [[Faiga Apfeldorfer (b.1940)]] | Born 1940 | | [[Shmuel Apfeldorfer (b.1942)]] | Born 1942 |