Subdivision Type: | Country |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Official Name: | Álmosd |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Hajdú-Bihar |
Area Total Km2: | 34.13 |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 1653 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 4285 |
Area Code: | 52 |
Álmosd is a village in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
Jews began to settle in the village in 1770.In 1830, the Jewish community established a synagogue and a cemetery.[1]
In 1944, 63 Jews lived there,[2] 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.[3]
It covers an area of 34.130NaN0 and has a population of 1,653 people (2015).