Csernus Lukács - Triff Zsigmond: The Cemeteries of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

Mourning figure of World War I soldier

ON THE FIRST CIRCULAR AREA

separated by a wall containing urns. When the remains of the dead, as well as the statue, were removed to the middle of the first circle in 1992 the memory of the dead was offended on two counts: the sign on the statue was changed and the dead were re-buried in an unmarked grave together with the bodies of paratroopers exhumed from the former Soroksár Cemetery. Thousands of unidentified civilian casualties of the siege of Budapest were interred in Section 162. Remains of Hungarian soldiers killed in World War II can also be found in the first rows of Section 32, in Sections 31 and 41 and in the family vaults built in the sections that used to belong to the military. In Section 43, there is a resting place of Polish soldiers, which includes the victims of murders committed during the German occupation of Hungary. The policemen killed on duty during the siege of Budapest as well as ensign József Rozs and his six comrades-in-arms who died a hero’s death at Munkács were also laid to rest in the first rows of this section.

The dead of the Greek Orthodox and the Muslim denominations had always been buried separately. The municipal authorities established a separate section for them in the New Public Cemetery, too, providing room for both civilians and military. Sections 105 and 124 on each side of the crematorium were created at the beginning of World War I, after Section 69, reserved for Muslim, primarily Bosnian soldiers killed in the war, had become full. Credit for arranging Muslim graves between 1936 and 1938 is due to head gardener József Pusztagyimóti, on whom a great honour was conferred by the Turkish government in recog38