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

The tomb of poet Zoltán Zelk

rests the distinguished actress Edit Dómján, who felt she had had enough of life at the age of forty; her colleague Sándor Pécsi, actor, is also buried here; pianist Imre Un- gár and writer and pedagogue Sándor Török were also laid to rest in this section.

In Section 31, you can find the common grave of members of the Greek Orthodox community transferred here from the old Tabán Cemetery. But the section is full of well- known names of recent times, too, as the artists’ section proper, being nearly full, extends almost as far as this location. This is where the acclaimed ballet dancer Gabriella Lakatos is buried as well as the Transylvanian writer Géza Páskándi, who was dragged away to forced labour camps in the Danube delta. The inseparable brothers Kálmán and Árpád Latabár, both comedians, share a grave located in a part of Section 31/a along the circular area. A few steps away, at the corner of Section 32, rests Manyi Kiss, who was their memorable partner on many occasions. Next to her tombstone are a Hungarian grave post and a Transylvanian one. The segmented Section 33 stretches as far as the section mentioned above. At its corner towards the circular area is the resting place of fencing champion Ödön Tersztyánszky, whose grave is topped with an impressive male figure (by Károly Cser and Elek Kóbor) defying time unlike the sword and his portrait, which also used to decorate the grave but which have disappeared. From among the innumerable noted persons buried in this section, attention must be called to Lieutenant-Colonel József Birsy, senior officer of the few soldiers, buried in Farkasrét, who fought in the Hungarian

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