Nyzhni Vorota

Nyzhni Vorota is a village in Volovets Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast of Western Ukraine.

The village has around 2,240 inhabitants. Local government is administered by Nyzhnovoritska village council, based in the village.

Geography

The village Nyzhni Vorota is located in the Carpathian Mountains, on the southern slopes of the Dividing Range, within Volovets Pass.

Through the village passes the Highway M06 (Ukraine). It is a Ukrainian international highway connecting Kyiv to the Hungarian border near Chop, where it connects to the Hungarian Highway.

Distance from the regional center Uzhhorod is, from the district center Volovets, and from Lviv.

By 1880, the Jewish population was 545. With the Hungarian occupation in March, 1939, Jews were persecuted and pushed out of their occupations. In 1941, dozens of Jews from Nyzhni Vorota were drafted into forced labor battalions and others were drafted for service on the Eastern front, where most died. In August, 1941, a number of Jewish families without Hungarian citizenship were expelled to Nazi occupied Ukrainian territory, to Kamenets-Podolski, and murdered there. The remaining Jews, about 500, were deported to Auschwitz mid-May 1944.