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

Section for the victims of the 1950s with the names of THOSE already identified

is a grave post here to honour the memory of Pool Bang Jensen, a Danish diplomat assassinated in New York, who took a stand for the Hungarian revolution in the UN. Miklós Jovánovics’s monument in memory of the martyrs of ’56 was erected in Section 300. The graves of Imre Nagy, Pál Maiéter, Géza Losonczy, József Szilágyi and Miklós Gi- mes, the victims of Imre Nagy’s trial, are nearby this memorial.

Like other cemeteries, this one contains separate burial areas for religious orders (for example, in Sections 85 and 154), where their prominent teachers, writers, scholars and scientists noted for their outstanding achievements are buried.

Having declared the Kerepesi Cemetery a cemetery of honour, the municipal authorities needed space to implement their plans of re-arrangement there; it was for this reason that they vacated nine sections in the Kerepesi Cemetery in which burials had taken place before June 1870, and had the approximately 32 thousand corpses exhumed from them transferred to a common grave in the Public Cemetery. The same happened once again when, in 1953, due to the expansion of the Rubber Factory, the remains of the dead had to be exhumed from the columbarium on the left of the Kerepesi Cemetery as well as from certain parts of some of its sections; the new ossuary promised by the authorities, however, has never been built in the Rákoskeresztúr Cemetery. The establishment of the Pantheon of the Labour Movement also led to the trans- ferrai of several thousand corpses to the Public Cemetery,

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