Riczu Zoltán: Zsidó épületek és emlékek Nyíregyházán. (A Nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum kiadványai 34. Nyíregyháza, 1992)

The History of the Cemetary Five Jewish people of the town applied to the town administration for a piece of land they could use as a cemetary in 1843. The request was granted. They enlarged the cemetary several times, and in 1930 the orthodox community purchased a separate cemetary. Before 1930 both communities had buried their dead in the same cemetary. The Jewish communities in the town erected their own religious and community buildings as well. The synagogue was built in 1880. After the split in 1904 the building remained in the possession of the status quo group. In 1944 it had been so badly damaged in the war that what was left of the building was demolished when the war over. The buildings of the school were erected in 1897, 1909 and in 1929. The children from both communitities attended the same school, the buildings of which still stand. The orthodox community built a Talmud Torah school in 1910, these buildings also stand today, but the mique built in 1907 did not survive. Special buildings were erected for the ritual killing of poultry in 1904, 1922 and 1926. Only one of these buildings has survived. Two market halls were built for selling kosher meat in 1922 and 1928. Both these buildings still stands. The status quo community purchased a dwelling house and converted it into a house of worship. The house still stands. They finished the construction of the hospital in 1926 but could not furnish and equip it; it was purchased by the town authorities in 1942 for the purposes of the county hospital. It has only been used as a hospital since 1948; it was unused before that. The status quo synagogue stood among the buildings of the school; it was badly damaged during the war and the remaining parts of the building had to be demolished. Its stones were used for building the Memorial to the Deportees in 1949. All the school buildings and plots were nationalized in 1952. The Memorial was erected in the cemetary — it has been standing there ever since then — and a new house of worship was built to replace the one that had been confiscated together with the other school buildings. This new house survived but it does not belong to the community now, as it was sold in 1960. The centre of the town is the Town Hall. The centres of both communities — twelve buildings all together — are located within 400 metres from the Town Hall. Further two buildings are to be found within 600 metres from it. The hospital is located within 1,200 metres, whereas the cemetery is 1,800 metres away from the Town Hall. 132