Post World War II
The estimated number of surviving Jews from the area was 15,000-20,000 people. Most of them left Carpatho-Ruthenia before the new Soviet borders were sealed in the Fall of 1945, so there were only 4,000 Jews left in 1948. At the first post-WW2 census in the Soviet Union, in 1959, the number of Jews in the Zakarpatskaya Oblasty was 12,569 - mainly immigrants from other parts of the Ukraine.
Most Jews who remained in the region emigrated to the United States and Israel during the 1970s in the wake of the Jackson-Vanik amendment, while a few went to Hungary. The last Soviet census in 1989 found only 2,700 Jews living in the area.
Read more about this topic: History Of The Jews In Carpathian Ruthenia
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