# Novi Sad (Uj Videk) <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Нови Сад (Serbian); Újvidék (Hungarian); Neusatz (German)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Novi Sad, South Bačka District, Vojvodina, Serbia</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>45°15′N 19°50′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>Újvidék</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary (Austria-Hungary) — Bács-Bodrog County</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1941</td><td>Novi Sad</td><td>Kingdom of Yugoslavia — Danube Banovina</td></tr> <tr><td>1941–1944</td><td>Újvidék</td><td>Hungary (occupation / annexation of Bačka)</td></tr> <tr><td>1944–1992</td><td>Novi Sad</td><td>Yugoslavia (SR Serbia — Vojvodina)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Novi Sad</td><td>Serbia — Vojvodina, South Bačka District</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Novi Sad (Hungarian Újvidék), capital of Vojvodina on the Danube in northern Serbia, held one of the region's most important Jewish communities — the wider Bačka district was home to roughly 15,000 Jews before the war, over a fifth of Yugoslavia's pre-war Jewish population. After Hungary occupied Bačka in 1941, Royal Hungarian Army and gendarme units carried out the **Novi Sad raid (the "Racija")** of 21–23 January 1942: some 800 Jews and 500 Serbs in the city were seized and shot at the frozen Danube, part of ~3,000–4,000 civilians murdered across southern Bačka. Following Germany's occupation of Hungary, the remaining Jews of Novi Sad — an estimated 1,600 people — were rounded up in April 1944 and deported to Auschwitz. A monument (the "Family" / *Porodica* by Jovan Soldatović) on the Danube quay commemorates the raid's victims. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — [Novi Sad raid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_Sad_raid); Yad Vashem — [Novi Sad, 23 January 1942](https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/this-month/january/1942-3.html); [Jewish Virtual Library — Novi Sad](https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/novi-sad).</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Nikola Rugviya (b.1948)]] | Born 1948 | | [[Lydia Farkas (b.1954)]] | Born 1954 | | [[Nemanya Bogdonov (b.1980)]] | Born 1980 | | [[Veljko Rugviya (b.1982)]] | Born 1982 | | [[Nandor Farkas (b.1920)]] | Died 2001 |