# Volovets <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Воловець (Ukrainian), Volóc (Hungarian)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Mukachevo Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>48.71111 23.18833</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>Volóc</td><td>Bereg County, Kingdom of Hungary (Austria-Hungary)</td></tr> <tr><td>1919–1938</td><td>Volovec</td><td>Subcarpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1944</td><td>Volóc</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–present</td><td>Volovets</td><td>Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine (USSR until 1991)</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Volovets (Hungarian Volóc), established in 1433, is a settlement in the Carpathian highlands of Zakarpattia and historically a regional rail and transport hub. Jewish vital-registration records survive, with the earliest entries dating to 1837, confirming an established 19th-century Jewish community. As part of Subcarpathian Ruthenia, its Jews were caught in the May–June 1944 Hungarian deportations, when more than 100,000 Zakarpattian Jews were sent to Auschwitz. Specific local peak-population figures were not located. <small>Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volovets, https://www.jewishgen.org/sub-carpathia/GEO_town.asp?id=1058755</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Betzalel Katz (b.1855)]] | Born 1855 | | [[Sheindel Apfeldorfer (b.1879)]] | Born 05/31/1879 | | [[Sarah Sherach Apfeldorfer (b.1882)]] | Born 12/12/1882 | | [[Lajos Katz (b.1889)]] | Born 06/16/1889 | | [[Zelda Katz (b.1907)]] | Born 1907 | | [[Esther Steinberg (b.1924)]] | Born 1924 | | [[Esther Malka Katz]] | Born | | [[Gittel Perel Katz (d.1979)]] | Born |