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

A TYPICAL SECTION FROM THE PRESENT

nition of this work. The religious leaders of the Turkish community living in Hungary were buried here, too. At the back of the section, you can see obelisks moved here from Németvölgy Cemetery.

At the side of Section 144 and in Section 165 are the municipal graves (i.e. graves granted free of charge) of the unidentified and of those whose funeral was paid for by the public. Sections 140 and 215 are the places where the German and the Soviet war dead are buried, respectively.

In the farthest corner of the cemetery are buried those who were victimised by show trials or were executed without proper verdicts after World War II, lying together with the martyrs of the reprisals following the revolution of 1956 (and their brothers-in-arms having died recently). Such victims lie in other sections, too (Sections 233, 235, 295, 296, 297 etc.). The identical grave posts in Section 298 mark only their estimated number. The names of these victims identified so far can be read on a plaque in the middle of the memorial park. Clntil the late 1980s you could only visit the ill-kept area of unmarked graves in secret, while trying to dodge the secret police. It was in the autumn of 1988 that members of the art group Inconnu set up different posts above the graves of those executed after the revolution (the only grave post they made for 16 June was seized by the police); the stone slabs with names on them were placed next to the grave posts only after the re-burial of the martyrs in 1989 symbolising the change of political system in Hungary, and after successive exhumations and research work done to identify the victims. There

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