Ieud (in Hungarian Jód, in Yiddish יועד, alternatively Yoed, Yoid) is the village in Maramureș County, Transylvania, Romania.
Until the end of World War I, it was part of the Hungarian kingdom, in the Austria-Hungarian empire. Maramures county was annexed to Hungary during the years 1940-1945, and returned to Romanian control at the end of World War II.
The first Jewish settlement in the place is not documented, the reason being that Jewish immigrants from Galicia began to settle there in the 18th century.
Demograpy
First jew stettled in the begginig of 18. century.
In 1838 it had a population of 2,000 Greek Catholics, 160 Jews and 35 Roman Catholics. In 1910 of the 2,774 inhabitants, 2,330 were Romanian, 410 yiddish and 33 Hungarian native speakers, and 2,340 were Greek Catholic and 410 Jewish by denomination. After the first world war the community decreased to 286 soul around 1930.
Holocaust
Leud, along with all of northern Transylvania, was annexed by Hungary in August, 1940. In Persecution of Jews began during the time of Hungarian control. In 1942, all Jewish men aged 20 - 42 were forcefully conscripted into the Hungarian regiments of forced laborers. They were sent to areas conquered by German and Hungarian forces in the Soviet Ukraine, where most of them perished.
After Germany took control of Hungary, in the spring of 1944, all of the Jews of Leud were concentrated in a ghetto set up. The Jews of Leud were sent to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
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