The Jewish Cemetery of Óbuda in Budapest, Hungary, was opened by the Jewish community in 1922 in the
Óbuda-Békásmegyer
Óbuda-Békásmegyer is the 3rd district of Budapest, Hungary.
Landmarks
* Aquincum, ruins of the Roman city
* Óbuda Jewish Cemetery
* Római Part (Roman Beach)
History
The military camp, then city of Aquincum, located in part of what later b ...
district (District III) of Budapest. The opening speech was delivered by Ignác Schreiber, a young rabbi, who died only three days later, becoming the first person to be buried there.
Later the remains of
Mózes Müncz,
Gyula Wellesz and
Gyula Klein, chief rabbis of
Óbuda
Óbuda was a town in Hungary that was merged with Buda and Pest on 17 November 1873; it now forms part of District III-Óbuda-Békásmegyer of Budapest. The name means ''Old Buda'' in Hungarian (in German, ''Alt-Ofen''). The name in Bosnian, ...
, were brought there. The tomb of Mózes Müncz is a significant place of pilgrimage. Renowned
Jewish Hungarian
The history of the Jews in Hungary dates back to at least the Kingdom of Hungary, with some records even predating the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895 CE by over 600 years. Written sources prove that Jewish communities lived i ...
artists and scientists are also buried here, including the writer,
Andor Endre Gelléri, and the psychologist,
Ferenc Mérei.
The mass grave of the Maros Street Hospital's 149 victims, patients, doctors and nurses alike, who were murdered in January 1945 by the members of the Hungarian
Arrow Cross Party
The Arrow Cross Party ( hu, Nyilaskeresztes Párt – Hungarista Mozgalom, , abbreviated NYKP) was a far-right Hungarian ultranationalist party led by Ferenc Szálasi, which formed a government in Hungary they named the Government of National ...
, during the
Holocaust in Hungary
The Holocaust in Hungary was the dispossession, deportation, and systematic murder of more than half of the Hungarian Jews, primarily after the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944.
At the time of the German invasion, Hungary had a Jewis ...
, are located in this cemetery.
[Budapest, III. Külső Bécsi út 369.]
References
External links
*
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Obuda Jewish Cemetery
Jewish cemeteries in Hungary