Details - Vojvodina Holocaust Memorials

Serbian name: Kanjiža
Former name
Hungarian name: Magyarkanizsa
Slovak name
German name
English description: Jews began settling in Kanjiža in the second half of the 18th century. The cemetery was founded around 1800. The synagogue was built in 1861, on the corner of 1 Bolmanska Street and Dože Đerđa Street. The Jewish school was built in 1867 and was located across the street from the synagogue. The same year, the Jewish kindergarten was established. It was located on the corner of Bolmanska and Drapšinova Streets. At the beginning of the 20th century, 375 Jews lived in this town. The number of Holocaust survivors is 63. The synagogue was demolished in 1948. The building of the kindergarten exists today. On the 50th anniversary of the deportation of Jews from Bačka - on April 26, 1994, the memorial plaque was unveiled at the site of the destroyed synagogue. The memorial-plaque on the building of the Jewish kindergarten was unveiled in 1997. Inscriptions on both memorial plaques do not refer to the suffering of the Jews from the Kanjiža municipality during the Holocaust. The commemoration ceremonies to the Holocaust victims have been held at the site of the former synagogue in Bolmanska Street – from where over 300 Jews from Kanjiža were deported to extermination camps on April 26, 1944.
Bibliography: Pavle Šosberger, Sinagoge u Vojvodini (Novi Sad: Prometej, 1998), 36-39. Sećanje na stradanje Jevreja u Kanjiži, Attila Pejin, “Tisza menti zsidó temetõk – Magyarkanizsa,“ Hid 1 (2015): 111-121. Meggyalázott emlékmű, Evidencija preživelih Jevreja u Jugoslaviji 1946, I-II, Arhiv JONS, Novi Sad.