Župné mesto Rimavská Sobota 1938 - 1944

According to the first Vienna Arbitration, the southern regions of daily Slovakia, including the city of Rimavská Sobota (in Hungarian Rimaszombat) was ceded to the Hungarian Kingdom in November 1938. After the border changes, the city was classified as a county town. Rimavská Sobota according to the Hungarian census of 1941 was inhabited by approximately 636 Jews who composed about 9% of the town population. The majority of them were murdered during the holocaust. The city was liberated by the Soviet Army on 21 December 1944.