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Hungarian SIG: http://www.jewishgen.org/hungary

Jewish Community information: http://www.haruth.com/JewsHungary.html [October 2000]

http://www3.sympatico.ca/thidas/Hungarian-history/Hungary.html is Peter Hidas' website with various reference materials for the Jews of Hungary. [October 2000]

Jewish Cemeteries in Hungary: http://www.geocities.com/winter_peter_4 and Peter Winter at szombat@elender.hu

Hungary cemeteries in "A photographic essay of abandoned Jewish cemeteries in Europe." : http://www.giotto.org/jesse/hungary.html

Hungarian county map: http://www.felix-game.ca/html_files/countymap.html

Hungarian Jewish Museum at Sfad, Israel.
     Mr. & Mrs. Lustig founded memorial Museum of Hungarian Jewry in 1986 and opened to the public in 1990.Today by a small, devoted team and volunteers operates this site. The very small museum is the only establishment in Israel to preserve and present the heritage of Hungarian-speaking communities-the Jews of Hungary, Transylvania, Slovakia, Carpathian Russia, Bachka (Bacska), Banat and Burgenland.Its purpose is to present the various aspects of community life with their characteristic customs and traditions. E-mail: hungmus@hungjewmus.org.il
     They are cooperating with the Hungarian Jewish Community in Budapest and recently received a database collection of the three biggest cemeteries of Budapest: The Kozma-utcai temeto (Rakoskereszturi Zsido Temeto), the Farkasreti-temeto and the Obudai temeto. Besides, they extended the database to a few provincial cemeteries. The database contains the following details:
  1. First, family and maiden name of the deceased.
  2. Location of the grave in the cemetery: grave numbers, line number, parcel number and code number of the cemetery.
  3. Date of death
  4. Personal identification number of the deceased.
     The Memorial Museum in Safed has not yet deciphered codes of the provincial cemeteries. The cemetery database was collected and donated to the Safed museum by: Budapesti Zsido Hitkozseg, Hevra Kadisa, Director: Garami Laszlo, 1075 Budapest, Sip-u.12. Tel. 36 1 3227246; Fax: 36 1 3427290. The Budapest Hevra Kadisa [The cemetery database was collected and donated to the Safed museum by: Budapesti Zsido Hitkozseg, Hevra Kadisa, Director: Garami Laszlo, 1075 Budapest, Sip-u.12. Tel. 36 1 3227246; Fax: 36 1 3427290] might be the most helpful. The above description is based on our personal experience and we do not have any further information to supply. Source: Miryam and David Gordon, Rehovot, Israel, maja@netvision.net.il

1913 Hungarian County map: [January 2001]

REFERENCE: "Hungary Town Names in Land Register" lists about 1000 known cemeteries in Hungary, but only the official document location # is given. World Jewish Congress' Dateline, September 1996 reported that Laszlo Garami oversees Jewish cemeteries on behalf of Hungary's 100,000-strong Jewish community.

     REFERENCE: Magyarosz gi zsidą feliratok (Jewish inscriptions in Hungary) A. Scheiber. Budapest, 1960. 365 pages, illustrated, Hungarian. 61B144. Notes: 114 tombstones (not complete), 1278-1683, some biographies, chronological index, index of museums possessing the stones, index of houses from which stones have been excavated, personal names index. Jewish inscriptions in Hungary, from the 3rd century to 1686. Budapest, 1983. 433 pages illustrated, English and Hebrew inscriptions. 84B1194. Notes: 123 inscriptions plus photographs, Inscriptions English translations including Hebrew inscriptions on coins and seals. Source: Tagger, Mathilde. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography. Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.
     REFERENCE: Freedman, Warren. World Guide for the Jewish Traveler. NY: E.P. Dutton Inc, 1984.
     REFERENCE: Jewish Inscriptions in Hungary, 11/18/1997, Scheiber Alexander, From the 3rd exhibition catelog ??ntury to 1686, Akademiai Kiado, E.J. Brill Leiden, 1983, 434 p.,ANG/HEB, 963-05-3304-9. Source: contact Daniel Dratwa; d.dratwa@mjb-jmb.org. The book is among the collection at the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
     REFERENCE: Source: Bruce Kahn bkahn@servtech.com: Saros Laszlo and Vali Dezso. tanu ez a kohalom (This Cairn is Witness Today), a very interesting book of Jewish Cemetery Photographs published in Hungary in 1993. ISBN 963 7476 172. I have listed below the cemeteries contained and the number of photographs of each. The vast majority of this 149-page book contains black and white photographs. There are 8 (English) pages of text with general information. The sections are as follows:
     I. "Introduction, Cemetery in Ancient Times, Old Tombstones, Cemetery and History, The Tombs of the Ancestors, Tent and Parchment, People and Flower, Rituals of Death, Epitaphs, Signs and Symbols I. Symbols"
     II. "Animal and Vegetal Symbols"
     III. "Hebrew Abbreviations"
     "Bibliographical Notes"
Abaujszanto 6
Bekes 1
Budapest-Kozma Utca 2
Budapest-Nemetvolgyi Utca 1
Goncruszka 6
Olaszliszka 1
Pilisvorosvar 3
Szendro 2
Szecseny 3
Tokaj 1
Tolcsva 3
Zsujta 1

The following information has been excerpted from Gruber, Ruth Ellen. Jewish Heritage Travel, A Guide to East-Central Europe. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1992; (pages 142-191) Compiled by Elaine B. Kolinsky.
MAIN JEWISH COMMUNITIES * (page 149)
Town page Town page
Abaujszanto 187 Berettyoujfalu 187
Apostag 160-161 Abony 160
Baja 161-162 Bodrogkeresztur 162-163
Bonyhad 163-164 Cegled 187
Debrecen * 164-165, 149 Dohany utca 154-156
Holocaust memorial 154 Plaque of names 158
Synagogue 155 Erdobenye 187
Esztergom 187 Gonc 187
Goncruszka 187 Gyongyos 187
Gyor * 165-166, 149 Hodmezovasarhely 187
Janoshalma 166 Kaposvar * 149
Karcag 187 Kecskemet 166-167
Keszthely 167-168 Kiskoros 187
Kiskunhalas 168 Kisvarda 168-169
Kormend 187 Koszeg 169-170
Kovagoors 187 Kunszentmarton 187
Mad 170-171 Mad Synagogue 171
Mako 187 Mateszalka 172
Mezocsat 187 Mezotur 187
Miskolc *172-173, 149 Nagykallo 187
Nagykanizsa *173-174, 149 Nyiregyhaza *149
Olaszliszka 174-175 Synagogue ruins 175
Oroshaza 175-176 Papa 176-177
Pecs *177, 149
Satoraljaujhely 177-178 Siofok 188
Sopron 178-179 Sopron Synagogue 179
Szeged *180-183, 149 Szeged Synagogue 181
Szekszard 188 Szentendre 183
Szolnok *183-184, 149 Szombathely
Szombathely Synagogue 185 Tarcal 185-186
Tokaj 186-187 Varpalota 188
Zalaegerszeg 188 Zsujta 188


Town names in land register: US Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad Lists of Towns: About 1045 known cemeteries in Hungary are listed, but only the official document location # is given. In some cases no additional information is known. When a province area is given additional information is found in the other files. Contact them for additional information. Most of the following data is from the US Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad as indicated by the US Commission number.

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