Ajak is a town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the

Northern Great Plain The Northern Great Plain ( hu, Észak-Alföld) is a statistical (NUTS 2) region of Hungary. It is part of the Great Plain and North (NUTS 1) region. The Northern Great Plain includes the counties of Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Sza ...

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of eastern

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. At the end of the

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

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, 83 Jews lived in the village. 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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Geography

It covers an

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of and has a

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of 3952 people (2002).

Birth Place of

Laszlo Szekely, planter and writer who was married to Madelon Szekely - Lulofs.

References

Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust {{Szabolcs-geo-stub