Álmosd

Álmosd is a village in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.

Temple

Álmosd
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Country	Hungary
County	Hajdú-Bihar
Area
• Total	34.13 km2 (13.18 sq mi)
Population  (2015)
• Total	1,653
• Density	48/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	4285
Area code	52

Location of Hajdú-Bihar county in Hungary

History

The Jewish community

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]

Geography

It covers an area of 34.13 km² (13 sq mi) and has a population of 1,653 people (2015).