# Szentistván <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Szentistván (Hungarian)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Mezőkövesd District, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>47°46′N 20°40′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>Szentistván</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary, Borsod County (Austria-Hungary from 1867)</td></tr> <tr><td>1920–1944</td><td>Szentistván</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary (Horthy regency)</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–1989</td><td>Szentistván</td><td>Hungary (People's Republic from 1949)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Szentistván</td><td>Hungary — Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Mezőkövesd District</td></tr> </table> ## Overview **Szentistván** is a village in northern Hungary, in the Mezőkövesd district of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, on the northern edge of the Great Hungarian Plain. Named for King St. Stephen (Szent István), it was first recorded in 1315 and is one of the three "Matyó" folk-culture settlements (with Mezőkövesd and Tard) famous for Matyó embroidery. It lay in the historic Borsod County. Its small Jewish population lived within the wider Borsod/Miskolc-area Jewish community, which was largely destroyed in 1944 when Hungarian Jews were ghettoised and deported to **Auschwitz** following the German occupation of March 1944; the region's synagogues and cemeteries stand largely abandoned today. (No dedicated congregational record for Szentistván itself was found; Jewish residents here were tied to the surrounding county community.) <small>Sources: Wikipedia — "Szentistván"; Wikipedia — "Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County"; FamilySearch — Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County genealogy.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Salamon Friedman (b.1898)]] | Born 07/27/1898 | | [[Berta Friedman (b.1900)]] | Born 07/20/1900 | | [[Helena Friedman (b.1903)]] | Born 01/14/1903 | | [[Aranka Friedman (b.1905)]] | Born 03/27/1905 | | [[Danka Friedman (b.1910)]] | Born 02/08/1910 | | [[Egon Friedman (b.1913)]] | Born 10/22/1913 |