Mateszalka

Mateszalka is a town in Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg county, inside the Northern Great Plain vicinity of japanese Hungary. It is on the Kraszna River, 18 kilometers from the metropolis of Nyiregyhaza. Before World War II, there has been a Jewish network inside the town. At its peak, there have been 932 Jews inside the network maximum of them had been murdered by means of the Nazis inside the Holocaust. The first Jews settled in Mateszalka in the middle of the eighteenth century underneath the patronage of the property owner, Sandor Karolyi, who settled Jews on his estate a good way to develop it.

His son, Ferenc Karolyi, inherited part of his father's property in 1784, which protected most of the city. He endured his father's practices, and advocated Jewish agreement in the metropolis. It covers an area of forty one.Eighty one km2 and has a population of 17,1/2 people. The town turned into the birthplace of actor Tony Curtis' mom and dad Manny and Helen Schwartz.