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

Remains of an old military cemetery in the northern corner of the Jewish cemetery

many a great operetta; Vera Sennyei, actress; Károly Kern- stok, painter; and Oszkár Asbóih, helicopter designer. The ashes of architect Károly Dávid, designer of the People’s Stadium in Budapest, are in one of the urn cubicles marked CC located in this area.

In Section 37, stretching as far as Érdi út, there is the grave of Imre Soós, an actor who lived a tragic life. The tomb of Albert Kenessey, great innovator of Hungarian ship-building, faces the circular area. The sculpture, aptly depicting a helmsman, and the reliefs decorating the tomb were all made by János Horvai. Walking from here towards the fence, you reach the resting place of Erzsi Simor. The bust of this famed actress is the work of Ede Kallós. The simple wooden cross of the writer Ferenc Herczeg, celebrated while alive and ignored after his death, is at the opposite side of the section.

In the south-eastern corner of the cemetery there is what remains of the old military cemetery opened in 1903, at the same time as a larger one with the same function was established in Rákoskeresztúr (Sections 51-58). The site used to be the burial ground of more than two hundred generals. Having survived harder times in a more or less intact condition, their graves, under protection (at least, on paper) and representing irreplaceable memories of Hungary’s past, have recently begun to crumble. It is in vain that the statue of a soldier by János Istók over the grave of Ferenc Gammel, knight, still stands sentinel. Another statue, by Lőrinc Siklódy, of Pál Flartzély, the saver of the lives of many, is deteriorating, while the grave of Je66