# Sokyrnytsya <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Сокирниця (Ukrainian), Szeklence (Hungarian)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Khust Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>48.12417 23.39972</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>before 1918</td><td>Szeklence</td><td>Máramaros County, Kingdom of Hungary (Austria-Hungary)</td></tr> <tr><td>1919–1938</td><td>Sokyrnytsia</td><td>Subcarpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1944</td><td>Szeklence</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–present</td><td>Sokyrnytsya</td><td>Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine (USSR until 1991)</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Sokyrnytsia (Hungarian Szeklence) is a village near Khust first documented in 1389. It had an established Jewish population before World War II, and a Jewish cemetery dating to 1865. During the 1944 Hungarian deportations a ghetto was associated with Szeklence, and like the rest of the Jews of the Khust region its community was deported to and murdered at Auschwitz by May 1944. Peak population figures and a sourced Hebrew/Yiddish name were not located. <small>Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokyrnytsia, https://deportation.org.ua/deportation-of-transcarpathian-jews-in-1944/</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Avrohom Wertzberger (b.1910)]] | Born 10/20/1910 | | [[Fishel Phillip Lebovich (d.1972)]] | Died 1972 | | [[Etel Lebovich (d.1944)]] | Born | | [[Levi Lebovich]] | Died | | [[Yita Lebovich (d.1944)]] | Born |