Vésztő is a town in Békés county, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary.

North of the modern town there is the archaeological site of a neolithic tell.

Their non-Jewish neighbors trusted them and some Jews were even elected to the city council and were also active in the town's culture.

On June 21, all Jews were sent to the Solnok Ghetto, where the author, Ida Lang, was murdered as a result of torture.

After the war, 34 survivors returned to the city, erected a monument in memory of the murdered, and tried to rehabilitate the community without success.