Szeghalom is a town in Békés county, in southeastern Hungary.

[1] In the 19th and 20th centuries, a Jewish community with hundreds of members lived in the village.

On March 19, 1944, after the German army entered Hungary, the village Jews were forbidden to leave.

On June 26, 1944, the village's Jews were transported by train to the Szolnok ghetto, from where they were sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp and murdered in the Holocaust.

[2] Szeghalom's football club Szeghalmi FC plays the regional 1 league.