# Paszika <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Pasika / Пасіка (Ukrainian); Paszika, later Kishídvég (Hungarian)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Pasika, Mukachevo Raion (formerly Svalyava Raion), Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine (historic Bereg County)</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>48°32′N 22°54′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 1904</td><td>Paszika</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary, Bereg County (first recorded 1600; Austria-Hungary from 1867)</td></tr> <tr><td>1904–1918</td><td>Kishídvég</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary (name Magyarised in 1904 place-name reform)</td></tr> <tr><td>1919–1938</td><td>Pasika</td><td>Czechoslovakia (Subcarpathian Rus')</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1944</td><td>Kishídvég</td><td>Hungary (re-annexed March 1939)</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–1991</td><td>Pasika</td><td>Soviet Union — Ukrainian SSR (Zakarpattia Oblast)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Pasika</td><td>Ukraine — Zakarpattia Oblast, Mukachevo Raion</td></tr> </table> ## Overview **Paszika** is the historic Hungarian spelling of **Pasika** (Ukrainian *Пасіка*), a village in Carpathian Ruthenia (Transcarpathia), western Ukraine, west of Svalyava (*Szolyva*) in the historic Bereg County. The name — of Ruthenian origin, meaning a forest clearing — was first recorded in 1600 as *Paszika*; in the 1904 Hungarian place-name standardisation it was renamed *Kishídvég*. The village passed to Czechoslovakia after WWI, was re-annexed by Hungary in 1939, and became Soviet Ukraine in 1945; it lies in the Svalyava district area, whose Jewish community (about 1,000 people) was deported to **Auschwitz** on 22 May 1944. This is an obscure rural locality; no separate Jewish-community record for Paszika itself was found, and the Holocaust context here is the district-level (Svalyava/Bereg, Carpathian Ruthenia) deportation of May 1944. <small>Sources: Hungarian Wikipedia — "Kishídvég"; Sebestyén Zsolt, *Bereg megye helységneveinek etimológiai szótára*; Wikidata Q3850711; ESJF — Svalyava Jewish Cemetery survey.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Bencze Beni Eisdorfer (b.1864)]] | Born 1864 | | [[Szime Eisdorfer (b.1877)]] | Born 10/07/1877 | | [[Kalman Eisdorfer (b.1879)]] | Born 12/31/1879 | | [[Jozef Mortka Eisdorfer (b.1882)]] | Born 01/14/1882 | | [[Chaja Eisdorfer (b.1883)]] | Born 06/16/1883 | | [[Elya Illes Ede Eisdorfer (b.1888)]] | Born 09/05/1888 | | [[Jakab Tzvi Eisdorfer (b.1835)]] | Died 12/14/1928 |