Petneháza is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.

The Jewish community was organized at the beginning of the 19th century.

[2] In 1941 young Jews from Petneháza were taken to forced labor, and only one of them survived.

In March 1944, about a month after the German army entered Hungary, the Jews of Petneháza were taken to Nyíregyháza, and from there were sent a few weeks later to the Auschwitz extermination camp.

[3] It covers an area of 24.2 km2 (9 sq mi) and has a population of 1732 people (2015).