Jewish cemetery in Farkasrét (Budapest)

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"The Jewish cemetery in Farkasrét was established in 1885, last known burial was 1993. Some Tzadakkim and other noteworthy Jews buried in the cemetery are Rabbis Goldberg Rafael, Geyer Artur, Heller Bernat and Kiss Arnold, and Benoschofsky Imre. The Jewish community was entire country's Hasidic Orthodox, Sephardic Orthodox, Conservative, and Progressive/Reform. The suburban hillside location is part of a municipal cemetery and has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, the site is open with permission with a masonry wall and locked gate. Pre- and post-WWII size of cemetery is 2.80 hectares. 500-5000 gravestones, less than 25% are toppled or broken. Special sections exist for children and important/ famous. The oldest known gravestone dates from 1897. There 19th-20th centuries marble, granite, limestone and sandstone flat shaped stones, finely smoothed and inscribed stones, flat stones with carved relief decoration, sculpted monuments or multi-stone monuments have Hebrew, German and Hungarian inscriptions. Some have traces of painting on their surfaces, iron decorations or lettering and portraits on stones. The cemetery contains special memorial monuments to Holocaust victims and Jewish soldiers, but no mass graves. The pre-burial house has a tahara (table), a catafalque, and wall inscriptions. The local Jewish community owns the property. Adjacent properties are cemeteries and waste dumps. Boundaries are unchanged since 1939."

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