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SALGÓTARJÁN  ROAD  JEWISH  CIMITERY

                                              
                                  
                                  Address: BP. VIII. Salgótarjáni út

                          
Photos taken by The author Illés András 0n June 2002.

The Salgótarjáni út Jewish cemetery was established in 1874 from a separate territory in the 55 hectares of The New Public Cemetery ( Új Köztemeto) of Kerepesi Road formed in 1847.
The entrance was built from the Salgótarjáni út in a special architect form, like The entrance of a castle, designed by the famous architect of this period, Lajta Béla in 1908. The entrance building includes the function rooms, the caretaker's flat as well.

The whole cemetery become  place for the elite, for The famous artists, for the gait family dynasties, for the banking and industrial leaders of the liberal and in the society incorporated neology leaders.
At the entrance going ahead we can find , like in a jungle , a superb wild vegetation.
The former pre-burial house, decorated with oriental-Mesopotamian style relief's, is abandoned and the roof is collapsed down for a long time.
This exotic and wild green jungle style park gives interesting atmosphere to the cemetery.The last burials were in the years of 1950.

The important family graves: 
-  Baron Weiss Manfréd and family crypt
The important industrial owner in Csepel Steel Factory died in 1922. His activity gave a general speed    up of the country's industry and during the I.WW. the steel and army factory gave employment to 30,000 workers. In 1880 he and his brother established the Hungarian tin box and bullet cartridge case production. The factory moved in 1892 to the Csepel Island and become one of the biggest army suppliers of the Monarchy.  Other family members rest in the family crypt: Wahl Albert railway company president, Weiss Alice to whom memory they established the Budakeszi Pulmonary Sanatorium. In 1944, after the German occupation, the owners were forced to sell the ownership of the steel industry to the Germans and the family members could live the country in the deal Jews airplane,organised by Rudolf
 Kasztner. 

 -Ulmann Adolf
President of the industry and monetary political leader Hungarian General Credit Bank. 

 - Goldberger textile factory owner family from Óbuda:
The 
Goldberger family established 1784 in Óbuda the most important textile industry. The company was so important, that also the Emperor Ferenc József gave a visit there and become later the textile supplier of the Monarchy. They had commercial partners and depot in 50 countries. For 1867 become noble and member of the high political elite. Leo Goldberger, the last member of the dynasty was transported in the death camp of Mauthausen and died of hunger in the last days of the II. WW.

- Ehrenfeld family
The nice crypt is worth to visit for the special mosaic decorations 

- Sváb family crypt
The grave is  decorated with interesting black granite  birds, masterwork of the architect Lajta  Béla. 

- Bródy József and family crypt
The black marble columns decorates the crypt. He was the president of the Pest Chevra Kadisa corp.

- Hatvany-Deutsch family crypt:
The monumental grave is in Greek Pantheon style realisation. The family was an important patron and collector of fine arts. He established the Hatvan flour milling industry and the private income of the business was invested in acquire European value paintings. Following the promulgation of the Anti Jewish Laws, all his collection was expropriated by the local authorities and kept under national control. The paintings were transported in the famous golden train at the last moment of the war out of the Russian army.

-
Aschner Lipót
General director of the Egyesült Izzó Tungsram Incandescent Lamp Factory.

- Friedmann Bernát
L
awyer and ex counsel for the defence for the blood- trial against the Jews, 1882 in Tiszaeszlar village.

- Graves of the Jewish victims in the period of the II. WW.
Victims of the battle of liberation of Budapest and victims having suicided into the Danube river during the nazi terror,
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Victims of the last Budapest Ghetto in Klauzál tér.

- Stone monument for 1500 victims, inaugurated on July 2002. 

 

Photos from the important graves

      Hatvany-Dresch family crypt

       Crypt stone of the family

                  Blackbird motivs at The Sváb family crypt

 Csepel Baron Weiss Manfréd crypt  

              Old gravestone        

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