Orthodox cemetery (Budapest)

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The Jewish cemetery was established in 1921. Rabbis Czitron, Schuck, and Weiss are buried here. The last known Jewish burial was 1993 [survey done in 1993]. The Hasidic Orthodox community used this cemetery. The flat suburban land is separate but near other cemeteries and has Jewish symbols on gate or wall. Reached by turning directly off a public road, the site is open to all, surrounded by a fence with a locked gate. Pre- and post-WWII size of cemetery is 5.10 hectares with more than 5,000 gravestones. Some of them are not in original location and few are toppled or broken. Special sections exist for men, women, rabbis and Cohanim. The oldest known gravestone dates from 1921. The marble, granite, limestone and sandstone flat shaped stones, finely smoothed and inscribed stones, flat stones with carved relief decoration or double tombstones have Hebrew inscriptions. The cemetery contains special memorial monuments to Holocaust victims, but no mass graves. A pre-burial house has a tahara (a table), a catafalque, and wall inscriptions. The local Jewish community owns the property. Adjacent properties are commercial or industrial. Boundaries are unchanged since 1939.

www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/e-europe/hung-a-l.html#B