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

1 Main entrance

2 Information, offices

3 Ceremonial building

4 Memorial of soldiers having lost their lives in World War 1

5 Monument commemorating Holocaust victims

6 Sections containing the graves of martyrs

7 Clm graves

8 The Schmidl vault

9 Row of mausoleums

10 Graves of rabbis

11 Funerary monuments by Béla Lajta

1910, a large number of the dead were exhumed from there and the remains of each, sewn into a separate sack, were brought to the new cemetery. (The transfer is commemorated by a monument made by Béla Lajta.) To provide enough room for the exhumed corpses, the municipal authorities granted further areas to the Chevra Kadisa of Pest (an organisation of the community in charge of funeral and social matters), thus creating the largest Jewish cemetery in Hungary, in which about 300,000 people have been buried so far.

The huge ceremonial building was constructed in 1891 to plans by Vilmos Freund. The lions at the entrance are the work of Alajos Stróbl. There is a ceremonial room on each side of the building so that funeral services for men

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