# Hajdúnánás <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Hajdúnánás (Hungarian)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Hajdú-Bihar County, Hungary</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>47.85 21.4333</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>to 1918</td><td>Hajdúnánás</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (Hajdú district)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–present</td><td>Hajdúnánás</td><td>Hungary (Hajdú-Bihar County)</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Hajdúnánás was the oldest and most populous Jewish settlement among neighboring towns; Mózes Fried was the first Jew permitted to lease a tavern there in 1786. The first synagogue was built in 1825, dedicated by Rabbi Eizik Taub of Nagykálló, and the Chevra Kadisha was founded in 1830. The community flourished in the early 20th century, when about 160 Jewish families (some 700 individuals) lived there, with a Jewish primary school (1877) and Talmud Torah Society (1884). Hungary's Jews were deported to Auschwitz beginning in May 1944; the community was destroyed in the Holocaust. The Jewish cemetery, replacing an older one in 1839, survives with an ohel and Holocaust memorials. <small>Sources: https://www.esjf-cemeteries.org/survey/hajdunanas-jewish-cemetery/, https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_hungary/pinkas_hungary.html</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Salamon Halpert (b.1886)]] | Born 10/1886 | | [[Lazar Gotesman (b.1905)]] | Born 02/1905 | | [[Yitzchak Eizik (Zoltan Zoli) (b.1912)]] | Born 01/20/1912 | | [[Mordechai (Miksa Max) (b.1912)]] | Born 07/12/1912 | | [[Reidel Svarts (b.1916)]] | Born 02/17/1916 | | [[Benjamin Halpert (b.1921)]] | Born 09/18/1921 |