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

Part of the Kozma utca CEMETERY

and women can be held in separate places. In the anteroom behind the portal whose appearance echoes the Moorish style, plaques are collected, which either honour those who were killed in the war, or feature inscriptions surviving the destruction of the religious buildings they once decorated. By the side of the building facing the graveyard there is a monument in memory of the ten thousand Jewish soldiers who died in action during World War 1. To the left of this monument stands a memorial designed by Alfréd Hajós, with the names of thousands of martyrs carved into its stone columns; the list of these names is supplemented by hundreds of others written by hand on the walls. The memorial is surrounded by the graves of those exhumed from mass graves after the end of World War II, including Jews who perished in the ghetto of Pest and were buried in Klauzál tér. The inner yard of the synagogue in Dohány utca was also used as a graveyard of the ghetto, where several graves can be found to this day, including that of the mathematician Dániel Arany. The scrolls of the Torah desecrated during the war are buried in separate graves.

A walk can commence with a group of sections numbered 1 next to the fence along Fűz utca. Here is the resting place of Gyula Rózsavölgyi, founder of a famous music publishing house and music shop; the grave of opera singer Dóra Bársony is marked by a white marble obelisk. Mrs Miksa Szabolcsi lies buried under a sarcophagus designed by Béla Lajta; the tombstone of the literary histori46