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 Lawyer 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, - Victims of the last Budapest Ghetto in Klauzál
tér.
- Stone monument for
1500 victims, inaugurated on July
2002.
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