Alsóvadász is a village in Borsod–Abaúj–Zemplén county,

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. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Jews lived in the village. In

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, 149 Jews lived in the village and there was a

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there. Some of them were murdered in the

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.Documentation of the village's Jews murdered in the Holocaust
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Populated places in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County {{Borsod-geo-stub