Battonya (Romanian: Bătania; Serbian: Батања, romanized: Batanja) is a town in Békés County, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary.

Residents are Hungarians, with minority of Serbs and Romanians.

The Jewish community in the city was established in the second half of the 19th century and most of the Jews in the settlement were merchants and industrialists.

In 1944, after the Germans entered Hungary, the head of the congregation and some of the community's dignitaries were arrested, and on May 13, all the local Jews were rounded up and finally transferred to Békéscsaba.

[4][5] After the war, three survivors returned from Auschwitz, six from forced labor and eighty from Austria.