I've indexed records for many towns for JewishGen. I feel like I get to know families, as I see their joyful events (marriages and births records) and sorrowful ones (death records) unfold over decades. Now that records in Ukraine (which has a 75-year privacy law after which records are accessible) include vital events through 1945, I also see when Jewish life abruptly ended in some of these towns.
Last week, I was indexing records from the villages of Dulfalva, Hungary (now Dulovo, Ukraine) and Talaborfalva, Hungary (now Tereblya, Ukraine). These two adjacent small villages' vital events were recorded in the same books.
The 1940s were tumultuous in the area, with some of the population's Jews being deported to Kamenets-Podolsk in 1941, and the area changed hands many times--from Czechoslovakia to Hungary to local rule to Hungary and then Germany's invasion. This is reflected in the number of Jewish births each year: 1938 (10 births), 1939 (11 births), 1940 (10 births), 1941 (4 births), 1942 (1 birth), 1943 (2 births). And then no Jewish births in 1944 or 1945 or thereafter.
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| Frida Laksz Birth, Dulfalva, July 1943 |
