Körösnagyharsány

Körösnagyharsány (Körös-Nagy-Harsány) is a village in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain Region of south-east Hungary.

Geography
It covers an area of 19.93 km² and has a population of 549 people (2010).

History
Körösnagyharsány is a small village in Békés county, close to the Romanian border. The village with rich historical background is inhabited by Calvinist Hungarian families. After the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, Körösnagyharsány – which originally belonged to the sphere of influence of Nagyvárad – became a border settlement.

The history of Jewry and their graveyards in Körösnagyharsány
For about one and a half centuries (1780s-1944), a small religious Jewish community, consisting mainly of small shopkeepers, innkeepers and tenant-farmers, lived in the settlement. In 1870 47 Jews lived here. They built houses, established a graveyard and became an integral part of the society and life of the village. After the Treaty of Trianon the Jewish community slowly started to diminish, and then their fate was sealed by the Holocaust.

Four person were deported from the village: Móric Grósz (1887–1944), Jolán Grósz (1899–1944), Olga Grünhut (1905-1944/45) and Gyöngyi Grünhut (1925-1944/45). They died in concentration camps. During the time of deportation, though, members of several Jewish families from the countryside were hidden in the village.