Alsóvadász Explained

Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Hungary
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Official Name:Alsóvadász
Mapsize:275px
Subdivision Type1:County
Subdivision Name1:Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
Area Total Km2:22.91
Population Total:1558
Population As Of:2004
Population Density Km2:68
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:3811
Area Code:46
Pushpin Map:Hungary
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Alsóvadász
Pushpin Mapsize:275px
Coordinates:48.2396°N 20.9039°W

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

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Jews lived in the village.[1] In 1840, 149 Jews lived in the village and there was a Jewish cemetery there.[2] Some of them were murdered in the Holocaust.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/NEDA_nemzetisegi_Zsido_1840-1941/?pg=365&layout=s&query=Bodroghalom Hungarian Jewish census
  2. http://www.izraelitatemetok.hu/index.php/alsovadasz/ The place of the jewish cemetery
  3. https://yvng.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=he&s_id=&s_lastName=&s_firstName=&s_place=Alsovadasz&s_dateOfBirth=&cluster=true Documentation of the village's Jews murdered in the Holocaust