# Nyzhnii Bystryi <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Hebrew / Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">אלשאביסטרא (after Hungarian Alsóbisztra)</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Нижній Бистрий (Ukrainian); Alsóbisztra (Hungarian); Nižná Bystrá (Czech/Slovak)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Khust Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>48°22′N 23°32′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>Alsóbisztra</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (Máramaros County)</td></tr> <tr><td>1919–1938</td><td>Nižná Bystrá</td><td>Czechoslovakia (Subcarpathian Ruthenia)</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1944</td><td>Alsóbisztra</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary (re-annexed)</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–1991</td><td>Nyzhnii Bystryi</td><td>Soviet Union (Ukrainian SSR, Zakarpattia)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Nyzhnii Bystryi</td><td>Ukraine — Zakarpattia Oblast</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Nyzhnii Bystryi (Hungarian **Alsóbisztra**) is a Carpathian mountain village of roughly 1,200 people in Khust Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, in the historic Máramaros County of Subcarpathian Ruthenia. The region changed hands from Hungary to Czechoslovakia (1919), back to Hungary (1939), and finally to Soviet Ukraine (1945). It had only a small, scattered rural Jewish population; the great regional Jewish centres were Khust, Mukachevo and Uzhhorod. After Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, the Jews of the Máramaros villages were concentrated into ghettos (chiefly at Khust) and deported in May–June 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where almost all were murdered. <small>Sources: Mapcarta — Nyzhnii Bystryi; Wikidata (Q663606) — Nizhnii Bistrii coordinates; JewishGen Sub-Carpathia — Alsóbisztra; Wikipedia — Khust Raion.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Malvina Strulowitz (b.1929)]] | Born 05/18/1929 | | [[Sosa Strulowitz (b.1931)]] | Born 04/22/1931 | | [[Zeny Strulowitz (b.1933)]] | Born 01/31/1933 | | [[Strul Strulowitz (b.1935)]] | Born 04/24/1935 | | [[Josef Strulowitz (b.1938)]] | Born 01/13/1938 |