# Vysni Hrabonice (Felső Gereben) <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Verkhnia Hrabivnytsia / Верхня Грабівниця (Ukrainian); Felsőhrabonica / Felső Gereben (Hungarian); Vyšní Hrabovnice (Czech)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Verkhnia Hrabivnytsia, Mukachevo Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine (historic Bereg County; Volovets area)</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>48°44′N 22°59′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>Felsőhrabonica / Felső Gereben</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary, Bereg County (first mentioned 1430; Austria-Hungary from 1867)</td></tr> <tr><td>1919–1938</td><td>Vyšní Hrabovnice</td><td>Czechoslovakia (Subcarpathian Rus')</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1944</td><td>Felső Gereben</td><td>Hungary (re-annexed March 1939)</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–1991</td><td>Verkhnia Hrabivnytsia</td><td>Soviet Union — Ukrainian SSR (Zakarpattia Oblast)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Verkhnia Hrabivnytsia</td><td>Ukraine — Zakarpattia Oblast, Mukachevo Raion</td></tr> </table> ## Overview **Vysni Hrabonice** (Czech *Vyšní Hrabovnice*; Hungarian *Felső Gereben* / *Felsőhrabonica*) is **Verkhnia Hrabivnytsia** (Ukrainian *Верхня Грабівниця*), a mountain village in Carpathian Ruthenia (Transcarpathia), western Ukraine, about 20 km from Volovets and 4–5 km south of Zhdeniievo in the historic Bereg County. First mentioned in 1430, it is a small logging-and-farming settlement inhabited mostly by Ruthenians/Ukrainians; it is notable for a surviving WWII "Árpád Line" bunker built by Hungarian and German forces in 1943. The village belonged to Hungary before 1918, to Czechoslovakia between the wars, was re-annexed by Hungary in 1939, and became Soviet Ukraine in 1945. It had only a handful of Jewish residents, whose fate followed that of Transcarpathian Jewry — deportation to **Auschwitz** in May 1944. This is an obscure locality with no dedicated Jewish-community history located; the account rests on region-level (Bereg/Volovets, Carpathian Ruthenia) documentation. <small>Sources: Ukrainian Wikipedia / travels.in.ua — "Verkhnia Hrabivnytsia"; Visicom maps (coordinates); Wikipedia — "History of the Jews in Carpathian Ruthenia".</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[David Bernstein (b.1857)]] | Born 06/1857 | | [[Mindel Bernstein (b.1882)]] | Born 1882 | | [[Yosef Zalman Bernstein (b.1892)]] | Born 06/30/1892 | | [[Yosef Dovid Shlomo Bernstein (b.1901)]] | Born 1901 | | [[Rose Katz (b.1905)]] | Born 1905 | | [[Moshe Bernstein (b.1930)]] | Born ~11/28/1930 |