Álmosd is a village in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the

Northern Great Plain The Northern Great Plain ( hu, Észak-Alföld) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of the Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Northern Great Plain includes the counties of Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Sza ...

region of eastern Hungary.

History

The Jewish community

Jews began to settle in the village in 1770. In 1830, the Jewish community established a

synagogue A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worshi ...

and a cemetery. In 1944, 63 Jews lived there, and after the German army entered Hungary, the local Jews were transferred to the Naguivarad ghetto, where all the Jewish residents of the district were concentrated. A few weeks later, they were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp. After the war, only a few Jews returned to the village who had survived and community life did not resume. There have been no Jews in the place since 1950.Álmosd in The Museum of The Jewish People
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Geography

It covers an area of and has a population of 1,653 people (2015).

References

External links

Aerialphotgraphs of Álmosd
Populated places in Hajdú-Bihar County Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust {{Hajdu-geo-stub