# Kushnytsya <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Kushnytsya (Ukrainian), Kovácsrét (Hungarian), Kusnyicza (Hungarian, pre-1920), Kušnica (Czech/Slovak)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>48.4500 23.2667</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>Kusnyicza</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary (Máramaros county)</td></tr> <tr><td>1919–1938</td><td>Kusnyicza</td><td>Czechoslovakia (Subcarpathian Rus')</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1944</td><td>Kusnyicza</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary (re-annexed)</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–1991</td><td>Kushnytsya</td><td>Soviet Union (Ukrainian SSR, Zakarpattia)</td></tr> <tr><td>1991–present</td><td>Kushnytsya</td><td>Ukraine (Zakarpattia Oblast)</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Kushnytsya (Hungarian Kovácsrét; earlier Kusnyicza) is a village in the historic Máramaros county of the Kingdom of Hungary — not Bereg — later part of Czechoslovak Subcarpathian Rus' and, since 1945, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine. Like much of Carpathian Ruthenia, it had a rural Jewish presence within a region that held as many as 150,000 Jews by the late 19th century; a Jewish cemetery survives in the village as evidence of that community. Specific local population figures are not documented in the consulted sources. The Jews of the region, including this Máramaros area, were ghettoized and deported to Auschwitz in spring 1944 after Hungary's wartime re-annexation and the German occupation. <small>Sources: https://www.jewishgen.org/sub-carpathia/GEO_town.asp?id=1044256, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Carpathian_Ruthenia</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Meir Friedman (b.1815)]] | Born ~1815 | | [[David Friedman (b.1824)]] | Born 1824 | | [[Ela (d.1826)]] | Died 11/07/1826 | | [[Shmuel Friedman (b.1756)]] | Died 1831 | | [[Yehudah Hersh Friedman (b.1840)]] | Born ~1840 | | [[David Friedman (b.1845)]] | Born 1845 | | [[Shlomo Yehuda Leib Friedman (d.1852)]] | Died 07/01/1852 | | [[Chaya Liba Friedman (b.1854)]] | Born ~1854 | | [[Beril Friedman (b.1861)]] | Born ~1861 | | [[Rachel Friedman (b.1862)]] | Born 1862 | | [[Aharon Friedman (b.1888)]] | Born ~1888 | | [[Yehudah Aryeh Leib Friedman (d.1925)]] | Died 08/16/1925 |