Svaliava


Svaliava is a city located on the Latorytsia River in Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Svaliava Raion. Population:.

Names

There are several alternative names used for this city: Свалява, German: Schwalbach or Schwallbach, Hungarian: Szolyva, Svaľava, Svaliava, Свалява.

Demographics

At the 2001 census, the population included:
According to the census of 1910, 47.1% of the population was Greek Catholic, 26.2% Jewish and 22.9% Roman Catholic. The Jewish population was deported to Auschwitz by the Hungarian government in May 1944 and murdered by the Germans.
After the Second World War a concentration camp was working near the town. Hungarian and German-born civilians were carried off by Soviet forces to the camp purely on the basis of their nationality. They were ordered to report for "malenkij robot", but most of them – more than 10 thousands deportees were killed in the camp. The site of the camp is now a memorial park established in 1994.

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