Álmosd is a

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in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the

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of eastern

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History

The Jewish community

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

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and a

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. 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

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of and has a

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of 1,653 people (2015).

References

External links

Aerialphotgraphs of Álmosd
Populated places in Hajdú-Bihar County {{Hajdu-geo-stub