# Sabinov <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Sabinov (Slovak), Kisszeben (Hungarian), Zeben (German)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Prešov Region, Slovakia</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>49.1006 21.0939</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>Kisszeben</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (Sáros County)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Sabinov</td><td>Czechoslovakia</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Sabinov</td><td>Slovak State</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–1993</td><td>Sabinov</td><td>Czechoslovakia</td></tr> <tr><td>1993–present</td><td>Sabinov</td><td>Slovakia (Prešov Region)</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Sabinov (Hungarian Kisszeben, German Zeben) is a town in northeastern Slovakia's Prešov Region, about 20 km from Prešov. During the Holocaust in Slovakia it served as a transit point for deportations: a Sixth Labor Battalion worked at military construction sites in Sabinov, and families were sent on 20 May 1942 to a transit camp there, then deported on 23 May 1942 to the Rejowiec ghetto in the Lublin district of occupied Poland. Rabbi Mordechai Lichtenstein served as rabbi during the deportations. The Jewish community was destroyed; as of the 2021 census only one resident identified as Jewish. <small>Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabinov, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Slovakia, https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_slovakia/slo119.html</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Berta Kornfeld (b.1887)]] | Born 03/01/1887 | | [[Moshe Simcha Berger (b.1911)]] | Born 04/05/1911 | | [[Matilda Berger (b.1914)]] | Born 07/04/1914 | | [[Frieda Berger (b.1916)]] | Born 1916 | | [[Reizel Berger (b.1918)]] | Born 02/04/1918 | | [[Gisela Berger (b.1922)]] | Born 02/27/1922 | | [[Anna Berger (b.1924)]] | Born 03/08/1924 | | [[Elimelech Berger (b.1928)]] | Born 05/13/1928 |